Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...About 25% of surgeries to implant tubes in children with chronic ear infections are undertaken too hastily, a new report says. The recommendation: more extensive antibiotic treatment...
Together with this chronic anger, the mistrustful Nixon had a passion for secrecy. He repeatedly launched military operations without telling his own Defense Secretary, Melvin Laird, and major diplomatic initiatives without telling his Secretary of State, William Rogers. All major actions went through his White House staff members, particularly National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Nixon's two chief domestic aides, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...
Cancer-causing mutations can occur quite by accident. But chronic exposure to carcinogens -- chemicals whose by-products bind to DNA and damage it -- greatly accelerate the rate at which dividing cells make errors. Proven carcinogens include asbestos, benzene and some ingredients of cigarette smoke. Many carcinogens, it turns out, are not blunderbusses but leave highly individualized fingerprints in the DNA they touch. At the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Curtis Harris, a molecular epidemiologist, has been examining cells from liver- and lung-cancer patients, searching for mutations in a tumor-suppressor gene known as p53 (p stands for the protein...
...assassin's bullets reminded Mexicans again of their country's most chronic problems. For the first time in more than 20 years, guerrillas reappeared as a political force last January when an indigenous peasant movement rose up and seized several towns in the southern state of Chiapas, leaving at least 145 dead. On Friday those rebels, who call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army, suspended their deliberations on a peace accord with the government, citing the country's uncertainties. Taking impetus from the revolt, discontented groups rose across the country, staging sit-ins and land grabs. Then two weeks...
...rattling landing in Spain, he sustained a serious back injury, for which he still takes medication. A host of other ailments, ranging from bad colds to kidney disease, are regularly said to plague him. But the most widely whispered diagnosis is cirrhosis of the liver, a condition stemming from chronic abuse of alcohol...