Word: chronical
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...common, experts say. Some 15 million Americans suffer from this chronic affliction of the airways that can make the simplest act of breathing laborious and can leave a person suddenly wheezing and gasping for air--especially during hot summer months. The number of Americans diagnosed with asthma has grown alarmingly in the past several years. Since 1990 alone, the number of cases has jumped 50%. Even more alarming, the death rate, which had declined steadily during most of the 1970s, has been rising sharply since 1979. No one knows for sure what is behind the increase, but a prime suspect...
When asked for a profile of a employee whowould be hurt the most by these changes Williamsreplied, "a part-time worker with a family, whereone or more people has a chronic healthcondition...
This increased co-payment will end up penalizing workers with families and people with chronic health conditions, since both of these groups are likely to spend more time at the doctor's office, Williams said...
...please leftish groups like labor, the National Organization for Women and environmentalists to make sure he would not be challenged from the left for the nomination. But the tension between attempting to be a general-election centrist and a primary-campaigning liberal has added to Clinton's image as chronic waffler. A similar tension will also make Dole try to retreat from his recent rightward tilt if he is nominated and has to campaign against Clinton...
...even now, progress is uneven. Though Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are booming, rural Vietnam--where most of the country's 73 million people live--is largely destitute. Half of Vietnamese children suffer from chronic malnutrition. The country's remarkably high literacy levels-among communism's proudest accomplishments-have begun to decline, as teenagers race off to find jobs instead of staying in school. On a recent visit, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Hanoi favorite, complained that investment projects are "being held to ransom" by officials looking for payoffs. Harvard economist Dwight Perkins describes Vietnam...