Word: chronic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...There is still an enormous apprehension in hiring people with psychiatric disabilities, for fear that they will go out of control," says Ellen Gussaroff, a New York City psychoanalyst who estimates that about one-third of her patients have had problems on the job. "But there are people with chronic mental illness who are very capable of doing good work with the right accommodations...
That coordination will be a serious mistake. Europe today has an average unemployment rate of more than 10% and is simply not creating private-sector jobs. This chronic problem reflects high payroll taxes, inefficient work rules and a tax and regulatory system that discourages entrepreneurial activity. Standardizing tax and industrial policies will exacerbate these conditions by eliminating the competitive pressure that would come from national experiments with alternative policies...
...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...