Word: chronical
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...attempt to remediate at least some of these chronic problems—and especially to shrink its budget deficit and to close the achievement gap—in the spring of 2002, the school district decided to consolidate or close several of the city’s 15 elementary schools...
...Harvard, in myriad other ways—from physical details like the University’s portraits (See “Men Rule These Walls,” page 5) to chronic, national problems like the paucity of women in the sciences (See “See No Evil,” page 16)—the culture of the University is often old, male and slow to change...
...Feng-ying, nurses' supervisor in Hoping's chronic-disease ward, says she saw no evidence of a deliberate cover-up. In her view, the real problem was that "in the early days, the criteria for diagnosing SARS were unclear." Indeed, Wu now suspects her friend and colleague nurse Chen Ching-chiu contracted SARS while trying to resuscitate a patient who was only later discovered to have had the disease...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, was half right when he warned that we have to fear fear itself. As Bruce McEwen of Rockefeller University and others have found, stress is bad for human health. Chronic stress suppresses the immune system. Worry too much about getting sick, and you’re more likely to get sick, or sicker, from any infectious disease. Stress also impairs memory and learning, increases the risk of Type II diabetes, and accelerates osteoporosis...
...meltdown of one of the country's top lenders has long been expected given Japan's chronic economic problems, and Resona's plight will only add to fears that the worst is yet to come. Curiously, however, the bank's bailout request may be something of a victory for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's much-maligned financial-services czar, Heizo Takenaka. A Harvard-trained economist, Takenaka took up his current post last fall, vowing to clean up the banking sector, but powerful politicians thwarted his initial reforms. Takenaka retreated, seemingly having made yet another false start in Japan's halfhearted...