Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them," says one senior, who has chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome. "I very often can't get out of my room. I go to someone in mental health. They are confidential when they call my room and leave a message...
...Joint: "So how to get over, how to get by?/ I wish I had a joint to get me high." The Seattle band Supersuckers has a song called Tasty Greens, which does not refer to spinach. The title of a new album by gangsta rapper Dr. Dre, The Chronic, is the name of a particularly potent strain of marijuana. More obliquely, the hard-rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully I've shaped...
...raise the $30 billion to $90 billion that universal coverage will cost, but politically unpopular levies on basic company-paid medical benefits seem unlikely. Insurance companies will no longer be free to deny policies to "high-risk" groups, a practice that has made it difficult for people with chronic illnesses to get coverage...
...There is absolutely no evidence that Mr. Amaral's supervision of Mr. Hicks was hostile, harassing or influenced by consideration of race," Taylor wrote. "Rather, there is clear evidence that Mr. Hicks had unacceptable attendance and exhibited a chronic unwillingness to take direction and work as part of a team...
Cambridge School Department officials said yesterday they have asked Harvard and other area universities to help them to relieve a chronic shortage of computers in the public schools...