Word: chronical
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...last week the chronic rifts among OPEC's 13 members remained just below the surface. Kuwait, whose Energy Minister signed the accord reluctantly, pointedly refused to abide by the quota imposed by its fellow members...
What "they" did to him began, he says, when he was a boy, the product of a broken home in New York City's Harlem. By nine, he was a chronic and violent troublemaker. When he was given mental tests, he threatened to set fire to the hospital ward and kill a doctor. The tests showed that Bosket was suffering from a severe antisocial personality disorder. His helpless mother had him sent to a reform school, where he began to emulate his father...
...days later, Green died at 52 after an attack of chronic asthma. "What surprised me most," he had confided to TIME in a discussion about his work in New York, "is how little people really care about children...
Alcoholism is defined by the report as a chronic, potentially fatal disease...
...Steven Jones was nearing an announcement on cold fusion too that Pons and Fleischmann called their surprise press conference. They had been urged to go public by University of Utah administrators, who were apparently fearful that archrivals at Brigham Young would steal the fusion spotlight. The U has had chronic money troubles recently, and an influx of fusion-research grants, not to mention international glory, could go a long way toward remedying the situation...