Word: chronical
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Collignon added that the French government must target the isolation causing the nation’s chronic unemployment and job discrimination...
...raise animals. Seven to nine chickens crammed into a cage the size of a microwave oven is a virus time bomb waiting to explode. Caged chickens stand in their own feces and are never able to stretch their wings. Many have been debeaked, and some have chronic pain and infections. We should ban the inhumane standards of factory farming. I believe that avian flu is the quiet revenge of those millions of chickens, ducks and geese we have tortured unmercifully before they reach our plates...
...Lions’ minus-18), total offense (435 yards to 201), and third-down conversions, for example (4-of-8 to 7-of-18). But while the Lions led on passing and dominated on kickoff returns, they rarely had either momentum or field position, thanks to a severe and chronic case of butterfingers. Over the course of the game, Columbia turned the ball over five times—three times on interceptions, twice on fumbles—in addition to punting five times and failing to convert on fourth down twice—and Harvard scored two of its touchdowns...
...case of the Middle East, into nuclear war. These struggles were not ideological, like the standoff of the superpowers. South Africa and the Middle East worked at a nastier level, closer to bone and gene and skin. They had, over the years, arrived at stalemate, a no-exit of chronic hatred. The struggles (whether to liberate one's own people, or to suppress the dangerous other tribe, or simply to survive in the moral airlessness) became prisons. The Men of the Year of 1993 -- Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela -- did nothing more and nothing...
COVER Men of the Year 32 The Peacemakers The conflicts in the Middle East and South Africa seemed frozen in a no-exit of chronic hatred. Then four men decided to find a way to break out, despite continued rage around them...