Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Externalist case, whose origins are noble enough, undergoes chemical change and becomes mere black racism and inchoate hatred--an intoxicating but evanescent luxury, like a cocaine high. Activism hardens into chronic, unappeasable grievance. As Horowitz says, "The phantom of institutional racism allows black leaders to avoid the encounter with real problems within their own communities, which are neither caused by whites nor soluble by the actions of whites, but which cry out for attention...
...knows the kids believes they are angels. Two of them have been in trouble with the law, several are chronic truants, and two are so-called third-year freshmen. A lot of people in Decatur are putting themselves on the line because they think these young men deserve a second chance. If it comes, they had better make the most of it by studying hard and straightening out their lives. That's the only way to give real meaning to Decatur's war of words...
Here's new hope for the millions of Americans suffering from chronic pain: A team of University of Minnesota researchers has isolated a small set of neurons on the spinal cords of rats that seem to relay chronic pain, and deactivated them with the neurotoxin saporin. The result: quick and permanent relief of various forms of chronic pain. While it has yet to be tested in primates, researchers hope that this could one day spell permanent relief to migraine sufferers, arthritis patients and sufferers of backaches and creaky joints...
...wait - there's more: Unlike the anti-inflammatory drugs and narcotics currently used to alleviate chronic pain, there are no known side effects. Normally pain is a useful warning signal from our bodies to our brains that something is wrong. But in the case of chronic pain, when our minds are usually well aware of our injuries, or in the case of persistent migraine headaches, the pain is useless to us. But outside of the reputed ability of some Buddhist masters, the majority of us are unable to block out pain, even when it serves no purpose. At least...
Last Thursday night Papandreou appeared, however, to confirm that he is a leader of the educated and inquiring minds. Profound politicians like him could advance the conflict of cultures to another level of peace and prosperity. He reminded us that the two chronic fighters could embrace the potential of a region that has historically been blessed with the winds of trade and culture between the east and the west...