Word: chronical
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...Cocaine puts a strain on the heart, and so does cigarette smoking. Now researchers have proved what common sense already implies: cocaine use by chronic smokers can be doubly deadly...
...door puts seasoned criminals back onto the streets to make room for nonviolent offenders, who make up half the prison population. "Prison systems are 'criminogenic': they create criminals," says University of Miami criminologist Paul Cromwell, who served as a commissioner on the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. The chronic beatings, stabbings, rapes and isolation ignite fury. "Just about everyone I talk to says that when they get out they will do something bad," says Larry Jobe, 32, who is imprisoned at a supermax facility in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota. "They are so blind with rage that they...
White House officials gave Bill Clinton, a chronic procrastinator, a full six weeks to get ready for his State of the Union speech. Tired of those harrowing last-minute cut-and-paste sessions that have marked nearly all his major addresses, Clinton's aides met with the President before Christmas to discuss a couple of broad themes for the occasion, "renewal" and "continuity." Three weeks later, they delivered a first draft in a fax to Clinton in Europe. With a week to go, speechwriters David Dreyer and Bob Boorstin met with Clinton on Air Force One to rework weak spots...
Charlie's years at Fernald were not happy ones. he had chronic ear infections that were left untreated by the school's staff, even when the ears stated bleeding. He lost all of his teeth. And he never learned to read to write...
Organized feminism, of course, had a lot to do with the emergence of the new beyond-bitch attitude. Feminism raised expectations, giving millions of women the idea that makeup is not the solution to chronic bruising and that even males may be endowed with coffee-making skills. But for most women, especially the kind who don't do book tours and talk shows, the feminist revolution just * hasn't come along fast enough. A sizable percentage of them have to work every day with guys whose notions of gender etiquette are derived from Howard and Rush. And all too many...