Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national spotlight trains on people such as Larry Hogue, a chronic mental patient and crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to see what is almost a national arms race to criminalize homelessness," says Madeleine Stoner, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "People are beginning to fear for their safety." Concurs Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, the man charged by the Clinton Administration with devising...
Lost in the rush to shed collective guilt, however, is the distinction between the majority of the homeless, who require only temporary shelter, and the chronic street people -- the 15% or so of the unhoused population who are the most unstable, the most sick and often the most visible. Also obscured is the inevitable fact that herding the homeless out of one neighborhood only forces them to take shelter elsewhere. Some communities, acknowledging that reality, are seeking a proper balance of compassion and practicality...
...danger is not that a new post-Wasp personality will emerge. A nation's character is not so mutable; it takes major upheaval -- revolution, conquest -- to transform it. What is possible, however, is that the character America already possesses will slip into chronic malfunction. Most of us will keep behaving the way we always have, without knowing why, while the rest will act differently, simply for the sake of being different. It is a sad end for an ideal -- especially for one that has been as fruitful as the Wasp...
...rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg's debut album Doggystyle (Death Row/ Interscope) is by all odds the most anticipated release in the brief history of rap. Snoop, 22, was first praised by the critics for his performance on several tracks of rapper Dr. Dre's triple-platinum 1992 album The Chronic. He landed on the covers of Rolling Stone, Vibe and The Source even before turning out his first solo album. Snoop drew more attention, not to say notoriety, when police accused him of being at the wheel on Aug. 25 when his bodyguard shot another man from a car. Charged...
...have found through epidemiological and clinical studies that acute or chronic exposure to ozone has adverse effects on the respiratory medium," says Koutrakis. "Ozone is an ecological threat because of its damage to crops, trees and even paintings...