Word: chronical
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...through laundry room pamphlets with superbly campy photos. No doubt, every call from home includes some sort of parental plead to “get more sleep.” So why don’t we balance our lives around something so obviously important? The pervasive problems of chronic fatigue at Harvard are perpetuated by a student culture that dismisses and denigrates sleep...
Clinton's sclerotic firmness may be chronic, a consequence of the sort of campaign she appears to be running--which is to say, the sort of campaign in which you put a ravening horde of consultants in a room and have them discuss whether you should say "I was wrong" about Iraq instead of making up your own mind and speaking the obvious truth. In other words, she's running against the Kerry campaign by imitating the Kerry campaign. She's fighting the last...
...spent on health care reconstruction projects in Iraq nonetheless. Child immunization campaigns have made impressive gains, with more than 80% of one-year-olds vaccinated against polio and other easily preventable diseases. But on the whole, the health care picture in Iraq remains bleak. Hospitals like Shuwetij's face chronic shortages as medicine and supplies. And of course the doctors keep leaving. Shuwetij says 10 of the doctors on his staff have fled Iraq in recent years after getting threats. The remaining doctors at the hospital, which has about 200 beds, often will not work overnight shifts because the neighborhood...
...Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Franzen had never been to Lithuania when he described it as a land of "chronic coal and electricity shortages, freezing drizzles, drive-by shootings and a heavy dietary reliance on horsemeat." A Lithuanian ambassador took exception - and invited him for a visit...
...home free, with your parents paying for everything from pizza at Bertucci’s to liquor at C’est Bon. After drinking said liquor, you have a nice safety net if you lose your belongings. A new ID card is just $20 (or $40 for the chronic offenders) away, all of which can go directly to your term bill. In fact, sending the cost to your term bill is the default option. If wayward partygoers do any damage to your dorm room, you’ll be covered at the end of the year...