Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...please leftish groups like labor, the National Organization for Women and environmentalists to make sure he would not be challenged from the left for the nomination. But the tension between attempting to be a general-election centrist and a primary-campaigning liberal has added to Clinton's image as chronic waffler. A similar tension will also make Dole try to retreat from his recent rightward tilt if he is nominated and has to campaign against Clinton...
...even now, progress is uneven. Though Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are booming, rural Vietnam--where most of the country's 73 million people live--is largely destitute. Half of Vietnamese children suffer from chronic malnutrition. The country's remarkably high literacy levels-among communism's proudest accomplishments-have begun to decline, as teenagers race off to find jobs instead of staying in school. On a recent visit, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Hanoi favorite, complained that investment projects are "being held to ransom" by officials looking for payoffs. Harvard economist Dwight Perkins describes Vietnam...
...changes were designed to remedy a chronic annual deficit of $10 million in the benefits 'pool,'" Knowles wrote. "Subsequently, members of the faculty expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the decision-making process and with some of the recommendations...
...decent and literate man of burgherlike propriety who increased or shut down financial support according to his opinion of his son's escapades and his view of the moral tone of his literary production. Subsidies were necessary; the young writer produced an astonishing flow of work, especially for a chronic consumptive, but the serialization rights to Treasure Island, for instance, paid only about £30, and although Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a huge seller in 1886, some 250,000 of the sales-four-fifths of the total-were of pirated copies...
...have had intermittent success applying the technique to my most chronic addiction: chess. George Steiner is right that chess is ultimately an entirely useless, self-referential experience, but telling yourself so is of no use because it is also totally absorbing. During, say, a 10-hour binge of speed chess, you tell yourself other things. You tell yourself it is a noble game. You tell yourself it was Ben Franklin's favorite pastime while ambassador to France ("I call this my opera," he would say, explaining his absence from the Paris opera). You tell yourself that Natan Sharansky kept...