Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victories in the struggle for equality because we have to keep fighting the same debilitating battles over and over. Every time an outrage like the Diallo shooting occurs, many whites treat it like a tragic exception in an otherwise fair and just system, rather than as a symptom of chronic racial injustice. Raise a fuss about continuing racism and you're accused of exaggerating or imagining things...
...even used that happy coincidence to particularly impressive effect. Granted, she has championed a few pet causes, but certainly with no greater success than previous First Ladies and certainly with much grander failure. It seems that her only accomplishment of note has been her ability to endure Bill's chronic infidelity. Why is this praiseworthy...
Hussein's death, at age 65 from chronic cancer, came quickly: The image of the king's triumphant return three weeks ago, piloting his own plane, was in stark contrast to the gold-painted ambulance making a slow left turn as it took the king from the Mayo clinic Thursday, returning to his country unconscious and on life support, his body in a state of deterioration following a unsuccessful bone marrow transplant and liver and kidney failure. By Friday, the Israeli radio stations announced "Hussein is clinically dead." The king had returned to his land and its people, but only...
When nonsmokers suffer from lung diseases such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis or asthma, their lung-cancer risk rises as much as 94%. The cause might be genetic or the result of chronic inflammation...
...steady flood of homework can cause chronic weariness. Holly Manges, a high-achieving fifth-grader at the public Eastern elementary school in Lexington, Ohio, approached her mother earlier this school year close to tears. "Is it O.K. if I don't get all A's?" she asked. "I don't care anymore. I'm just too tired." Over time, that homework fatigue can pull at the fabric of families. As early as third grade, Rachel Heckelman, now 11, came home every day from her elementary school in Houston with three hours' worth of homework. The assignments were often so dizzyingly...