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...just didn't get any better as a club. The second year was miserable. I had never been on a losing team in my life, or experienced such negativism all around me." In the dreary seasons following, Plunkett suffered a stream of injuries, but the chronic one was to his confidence...
...Administration invaded Grenada and excluded reporters from the scene. Journalists argued impassionedly that the press's freedom and the public's "right to know" were at stake. But to many of their countrymen, the lack of coverage seemed inconsequential-even gratifying-as if laryngitis had silenced a chronic complainer...
...noted that the centers do have the capacity to monitor simple chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, and that as people got familiar with the system they will begin to use it on a regular basis. "Even, if the long-term or chronic problem doesn't become a common type of patient the acute patient will always be here," he said...
...reduced tuition, in St. Cyprian's, an institution that rigorously prepared boys for the great public schools. Eric, 8, was caned for bed wetting: the place encouraged him to feel unworthy. "I had no money, I was weak, I was ugly, I was unpopular, I had a chronic cough, I was cowardly, I smelt, I was an unattractive...
Strong, who suffered a broken arm and a concussion, reported that he is recovering gradually. He has taken the semester off to go home and recuperate. Though his arm is still in a cast and he still in a cast and he suffers chronic headaches from the concussion, he said he expects to be fully recovered and back in school by January...