Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report's authors have identified asthma and respiratory diseases, injuries, lead poisoning, chronic disease and malnutrition as the most devastating effects of the housing crisis...
Grove believes "only the paranoid survive." My dictionary defines paranoia as a chronic mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and of one's own greatness. Poor Grove. He would have us believe that our competitive free-enterprise system works only if one is emotionally sick. ROBERT ROSS Hendersonville...
When he returned to the job last fall, however, he assumed much greater power. Miami voters had approved a "strong-mayor" charter in September, sold on the idea that it would be a tonic for the city's fiscal troubles and chronic corruption. Rather than being just another commissioner, the mayor has broad-ranging authority, including the veto...
...September, Alan J. Kuo '85, who suffered from chronic myelogenous leukemia, was told by his doctors that unless he found a bone marrow donor, he had only one month to live...
When Kuo was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in 1995, his being able to talk of the future seemed chimeric...