Word: chronicic
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...changes were designed to remedy a chronic annual deficit of $10 million in the benefits 'pool,'" Knowles wrote. "Subsequently, members of the faculty expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the decision-making process and with some of the recommendations...
...decent and literate man of burgherlike propriety who increased or shut down financial support according to his opinion of his son's escapades and his view of the moral tone of his literary production. Subsidies were necessary; the young writer produced an astonishing flow of work, especially for a chronic consumptive, but the serialization rights to Treasure Island, for instance, paid only about £30, and although Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a huge seller in 1886, some 250,000 of the sales-four-fifths of the total-were of pirated copies...
...have had intermittent success applying the technique to my most chronic addiction: chess. George Steiner is right that chess is ultimately an entirely useless, self-referential experience, but telling yourself so is of no use because it is also totally absorbing. During, say, a 10-hour binge of speed chess, you tell yourself other things. You tell yourself it is a noble game. You tell yourself it was Ben Franklin's favorite pastime while ambassador to France ("I call this my opera," he would say, explaining his absence from the Paris opera). You tell yourself that Natan Sharansky kept...
...weight of evidence supports the idea that wise adjustments of behavior can extend life span by delaying or preventing heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other chronic ailments," Paffenbarger said in the statement. "Also, it seems [to be] never too late to adopt favorable habits whether you graduated from Harvard...
Many doctors are beginning to view obesity as a chronic disease, much like high blood pressure or diabetes, that requreies lifelong therapy. The ailment can be controlled but not conquered, and treatment cannot stop even when the bathroom scale reports good results...