Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bureaucrats had been alarmed over the new rules governing party organization that Khrushchev had virtually imposed. City and regional officials were to have more frequent elections and a tenure of no more than six years. Nothing could have disturbed functionaries more. They could no longer count on a sinecure as a lifelong career...
Participants agreed that frequent changes in the tax system have made it difficult for businesses to establish and follow long range plans, said Winthrop Knowlton '53, director of the Kennedy School's Center for Business and Government, which sponsored the conference...
...addition, chlamydia's signs are sometimes subtle and easily misinterpreted. Men with chlamydia can experience a burning sensation during urination and a mucoid discharge, but their illness is often diagnosed as gonorrhea. In women, chlamydia may also mimic gonorrhea, causing a vaginal discharge, or result in the frequent and sometimes painful urination associated with a urinary-tract infection...
...sorghum, a grainlike staple crop. Through a combination of bad weather and overgrazing of arable land, production fell from 3.4 million tons in 1981 to 1.3 million tons last year. The result has been bread shortages throughout the country, even in the capital of Khartoum, and the frequent unavailability of supplies for the refugee camps. Says Hassan Atteya, Sudan's deputy commissioner for refugees: "There is no reserve of food, so we have to buy it locally. This is a problem, because Sudan has a food shortage this year...
Some antiabortion activists admitted to having mixed emotions about the bombings. "This isn't terrorism," insisted the Rev. David Shofner, pastor of West Pensacola Baptist Church and a frequent picketer at abortion clinics. "This is destruction of property. History will prove that the bombers will be the heroes because they stopped the killing of babies." Declared John Burt, head of Our Father's House, a Pensacola home for unmarried mothers: "I don't approve of the means, but I'm glad that the killing has stopped. Upwards of 350 babies are killed each week in Pensacola...