Word: chronical
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...fight against corruption. It's alleged that the IMF applies the same medicine in all countries. Look at the programs in Thailand, Korea and Indonesia. The medicine in each instance is very, very different. If you will take them, you will see how strongly centered they are on fighting chronic corruption, monopolies and bad procedures. If these programs end up making the countries stronger, it will be because they make a strong effort in correcting these governance issues...
...special notoriety. Its government-subsidized apartments were consistently rated among the country's worst. One of its biggest projects, an 1,800-unit catastrophe called Desire, was long reputed to be the very worst. The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), a political hornet's nest of patronage and chronic mismanagement, was so inept at making repairs that tenants routinely waited years for simple services. Hundreds of tenements were literally falling down...
...report's authors have identified asthma and respiratory diseases, injuries, lead poisoning, chronic disease and malnutrition as the most devastating effects of the housing crisis...
...there is the chronic pain of the Middle East peace process. Arab leaders have no love for Saddam but they oppose dropping more bombs on Iraq because from their perspective, Clinton has a double standard. He relentlessly pursues Saddam's weapons of mass destruction while saying nothing about the atom bombs everyone assumes Israel has stashed in its basement. The Arabs believe Clinton is less likely now than ever to buck Congress and his own party by browbeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a deal...
Grove believes "only the paranoid survive." My dictionary defines paranoia as a chronic mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and of one's own greatness. Poor Grove. He would have us believe that our competitive free-enterprise system works only if one is emotionally sick. ROBERT ROSS Hendersonville...