Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what doctors call fetal alcohol syndrome was spurred in 1973, when Drs. Kenneth Jones and David Smith at the University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the Lancet on eight children with similar birth and growth defects. Their investigation revealed that all were born to mothers who were chronic alcoholics...
...thievery and released eleven times in 18 months without ever going to trial. The same is true for juvenile criminals. A study done by Marvin E. Wolfgang, a sociologist and law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that 627 out of 10,000 youths in Philadelphia became chronic offenders. They were responsible for two-thirds of the violent acts and 52% of all offenses committed by the group over an eight-year period...
...leagues because of my arm, not because I could pitch," he recalls in a languorous Texas drawl. "My idea of pitching was to throw as hard as you could." That he did, walking batters by the dozen. His difficulties were not eased by chronic blisters on his pitching fingers or long stints in the bullpen...
...only difference between the young and the old. A significant number of today's elderly are, according to University of Chicago Professor Bernice Neugarten, "disproportionately disadvantaged." Many are foreign born, uneducated and unskilled. Far from all the aged are infirm, but 38% do suffer from some kind of chronic condition that limits their activities. Of these, fully half have serious problems and 5%, or one out of every 20, are homebound. About a third of all aged Americans are also plagued by poverty. Despite pensions, savings and Social Security, which will disburse $72 billion to 33.5 million recipients this...
There is a distinct possibility that under the present unsettled conditions, the Angolan government may be unable to exercise control over multinational operations as they attempt to extract the oil, bauxite and iron ore. That is a worry common to many African governments because of their chronic instability, limited authority, and minimal revenues...