Word: chronical
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...would have been unrealistic to expect the plenum to resolve chronic problems of empire that have bedeviled Czars and party leaders alike. Nevertheless, the outcome was noticeably flat and predictable. The party's new platform offered vague promises of economic and cultural autonomy to the 15 national republics but warned that secession or the revision of borders was unacceptable. Violence would be met with the "full force of Soviet laws," the platform warned. Yet all this has been said before, and seems unlikely to end the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh or cool the breakaway passions in the Baltic states...
Nearly all known cases of FAS involve children whose mothers have chronic alcohol problems. Says Barbara Morse, director of the Fetal Alcohol Education Program at the Boston University School of Medicine: "The more a woman drinks while she is pregnant and the longer she drinks, the higher the risk of FAS." Even so, moderate drinking is not considered safe. "Our best evidence is that we cannot detect adverse consequences to very light drinking," says Dr. Robert Sokol, head of the federally funded fetal alcohol research center at Wayne State University, in Detroit. "But that doesn't mean they...
...conduct of U.S. defense and diplomacy has often been cursed by backstabbing at the highest levels of Government. The problem became both acute and chronic with Richard Nixon. He believed in keeping his underlings as suspicious of one another as he was of them, and he liked to hear the worst about people behind their backs. His National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, frequently sniped at the State Department, until Nixon put him in charge there...
...research, conducted by a division of the National Institutes of Health, shows that azidothymidine, or AZT, dramatically slows the multiplication of the AIDS virus in people with mild symptoms of the disease, such as diarrhea, thrush (a fungal infection of the mouth), or a chronic rash. Until now, AZT was thought to be effective only in patients with more advanced cases of AIDS. Currently, the drug is the only medication licensed by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for the disease...
...discrimination against patients is all too common. Yet Mason, who is chairwoman of the National Association of People with AIDS, is convinced she is witnessing the transformation of the epidemic. Says she: "I think I'm going to be in the first generation to see AIDS become a chronic, manageable illness...