Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refdefining the school's mission were not task enough, Nye also faces the chronic problem of a lack of diversity in the faculty...
What isn't natural is going crazy--for sadness to linger on into debilitating depression, for anxiety to grow chronic and paralyzing. These are largely diseases of modernity. When researchers examined rural villagers in Samoa, they discovered what were by Western standards extraordinarily low levels of cortisol, a biochemical by-product of anxiety. And when a Western anthropologist tried to study depression among the Kaluli of New Guinea, he couldn't find...
...common, experts say. Some 15 million Americans suffer from this chronic affliction of the airways that can make the simplest act of breathing laborious and can leave a person suddenly wheezing and gasping for air--especially during hot summer months. The number of Americans diagnosed with asthma has grown alarmingly in the past several years. Since 1990 alone, the number of cases has jumped 50%. Even more alarming, the death rate, which had declined steadily during most of the 1970s, has been rising sharply since 1979. No one knows for sure what is behind the increase, but a prime suspect...
When asked for a profile of a employee whowould be hurt the most by these changes Williamsreplied, "a part-time worker with a family, whereone or more people has a chronic healthcondition...
This increased co-payment will end up penalizing workers with families and people with chronic health conditions, since both of these groups are likely to spend more time at the doctor's office, Williams said...