Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it takes one to know one. Only a chronic rubber-check artist, after all, is likely to applaud the sweetheart deal Congress cut for itself with its own private bank. And only sophists are likely to go along with the argument that accepting bundles of money from political-action committees is not tantamount to taking bribes. Congress's refusal to consider real reform of its campaign-finance system makes sense only to other professional politicians, for many of whom retention of power is the paramount goal...
...subject of welfare, Clinton, the moderate Southerner, is yin to Cuomo's Northeastern liberal yang. In Clinton's world, there is not a program for every problem. He cut Arkansas' relief rolls 7%, and part of his platform is to restrict payments to chronic recipients. He favors cuts not only to save money but because living on the dole can instill self-destructive values. Welfare, says Clinton, "should be a second chance, not a way of life." He tells dependent mothers to stop having children if they're not prepared to support them, because "governments don't raise children, people...
Waite's asthma also posed problems. With everyone sleeping so close together, his chronic wheezing kept the others awake. So every night Anderson would calm Waite, keeping up a hypnotic patter of "Take it easy, breathe easy, exhale," until Waite fell asleep. Anderson was also more forgiving of Waite's insatiable appetite for information after so many years of isolation. Initially, when they were still separated by a wall, Anderson would tap out dispatches on world events he had culled from radio reports by using one tap for a, two for b, three for c and so on. When...
...effect, Oregon is promising to provide universal coverage in exchange for a system of financial triage. A child will get a liver transplant; a chronic alcoholic will not. An AIDS sufferer will get treatment in the early stages of his illness but in the terminal stages will get only "comfort care." The plan would not pay for so-called heroic measures, such as expensive life | support for babies born after less than 23 weeks of gestation and weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lbs.). Nor will it pay for self-curing ailments -- now covered -- like the common cold, food poisoning...
...Relaxed in a near trance, patients are "guided" by a therapist or tape recording to visualize their condition mentally and to wish it away. Introduced in the 1970s to help athletes and musicians perform better, the method has won increasing acceptance among some doctors as a way to battle chronic pain, tumors and persistent infections. Patients are advised to study in detail how their immune system is responding to a particular ailment and then, with cues from a therapist, to imagine the antibodies and white blood cells zapping...