Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white frame building in Ashland (pop. 8,000), Ore. one afternoon last week, some 140 people packed into seats in a low-ceilinged, fetid room 30 ft. square. Many wore bandages or held to canes and crutches. Some bore the grimace of chronic pain. But all stood up when a thin, wrinkled woman in white nurse's uniform and fancy-print apron with prominent pockets came...
...population trends, even if coal's share of the fuel market slips below 30%, statisticians figure that it should boost its sales, by 1975, to 880 million tons. But that figure will be a dream unless industry, labor and Government get together on a sensible cure for the chronic sick man of U.S. industry...
...gains of the Communists: they have ideal conditions for their propaganda. Italy's chief problem is overpopulation . . . All the economic aid imaginable can't solve this problem. Italy needs emigration and Italians are willing to emigrate to any land ... As for the Fascists: they are chronic sentimentalists who are fostering a regrowth of nationalism. However, in the case of Trieste, they appeal to genuine Italian patriotism and rightly so ... The Italian claim to Trieste is legitimate. What Italians want is the right and opportunity to work and justice for their national interests. Until the Western powers deal with...
...four decades in which the PHS has been planning its Clinical Center, the emphasis in medical research has switched from infectious diseases to the chronic, disabling illnesses which are estimated to afflict 25 million in the U.S. The subdivisions of the National Institutes of Health reflect the change: one each for cancer, heart disease, mental health, arthritis and metabolic diseases, neurological diseases and blindness. The only major infectious disease remaining high on the N.I.H. list is rheumatic fever, which can permanently damage the heart...
...capacity and another year to fill it entirely. Eventually, for care of its patients and to man its 1,100 laboratory spaces, it will have 100 or more physicians and hundreds of other scientists in a total staff of 3,000. He expects no quick miracles. Against the common chronic diseases, unlimited research time at the patient's bedside is needed...