Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Charlie's years at Fernald were not happy ones. he had chronic ear infections that were left untreated by the school's staff, even when the ears stated bleeding. He lost all of his teeth. And he never learned to read to write...
Organized feminism, of course, had a lot to do with the emergence of the new beyond-bitch attitude. Feminism raised expectations, giving millions of women the idea that makeup is not the solution to chronic bruising and that even males may be endowed with coffee-making skills. But for most women, especially the kind who don't do book tours and talk shows, the feminist revolution just * hasn't come along fast enough. A sizable percentage of them have to work every day with guys whose notions of gender etiquette are derived from Howard and Rush. And all too many...
...Despite low incomes and poor access to medical care, Hispanics appear to have mortality rates from major chronic illnesses like respiratory disease, cancer and heart disease that are between 25% and 33% lower than the rates for other white Americans. Researchers speculate that one reason for the discrepancy is the stronger family ties among Hispanics...
...candor may stem from desperation. There are chronic food shortages (except in tourist hotels) and a virtual absence of such necessities as toilet paper and toothpaste. The capital's cityscape is bleak. "Havana is absolutely empty at night. There are no cars, no lights and no people on the streets, except for prostitutes," McGeary says. Yet most Cubans refuse to lose hope. Their vitality is what adds so much intrigue to the unfolding saga of the western hemisphere's last remaining Communist outpost...
...faced leader of the neofascist Italian Social Movement, Gianfranco Fini, 41. He contended his party best responds to public demands for law and order, immigration controls and restoration of the death penalty. The top two vote getters in Naples, the city that has come to symbolize southern Italy's chronic poverty and lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist who had the backing of the leftists and the Greens, and the neofascist party's Alessandra Mussolini, 30, granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini and niece of Sophia Loren. In Genoa and Venice the leftists surprisingly forced runoffs against...