Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then they vanished together. In mid-August 1995, just before they disappeared, the trio picnicked with Via at his home in Grottoes, Virginia. Despite chronic medical problems, Madalyn seemed healthy. Says Via: "They were in wonderful spirits; Madalyn is a wonderful humorist." The Murray-O'Hairs talked about searching the area for records of Madalyn's ancestors, and about possibly moving American Atheists to Richmond. Via snapped some Polaroids, and the trio returned to Austin. Then, on Aug. 28, says Travis, "I went to work and there was a letter taped to the door and it said, 'We've been...
WASHINGTON: Oakland School District Superintendent Carolyn Getridge defended her board?s attempt to introduce ebonics into the curriculum on Capital Hill Thursday. "What is at issue here are the steps we are willing to take to address the chronic underachievement of these students," Getridge told a Senate subcommittee. She argued that judgments about the proper place of ebonics in the field of official languages are not her concern. Her goal, she said, is to address the 1.8 grade point average of black students in the Oakland school district, which compares with an average 3.0 for white and Asian students...
...collection of symptoms, including chronic fatigue, rashes, headaches, joint pain, digestive problems and difficulty concentrating. Veterans have had babies born with twisted limbs, congestive heart failure and missing organs--problems they blame on their service in the gulf...
...government studies show that PERSIAN GULF WAR veterans are far more likely to suffer serious health problems--chronic diarrhea, memory loss, depression--than troops who did not serve in the region...
David (played from youth successively, and quite engagingly, by Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor and Geoffrey Rush) might have been a sweet-souled musical prodigy. But he had a brutal stage father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Jewish communist who was also a chronic German patriarch. "Music is your friend," says Papa in his Fuhrer-knows-best tone. "Everything else will let you down." David also has the classical pianist's romantic soul: part Liszt, part Liberace. Just as he embraces fame, he collapses into his mind's awful abyss...