Word: chronics
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...curbing the hiring of temporary workers by manufacturers, a widespread practice that over the last decade or so has relegated many youth to second-class-citizen status. While older workers hang on to the best jobs, younger workers stuck in temp positions are denied many company and government benefits. Chronic job insecurity makes it tough to start families - exacerbating the demographics problem. (see the new activism of Japan's youth...
...time as Vice President, the claim held up pretty well in both contexts. Over O'Neill's objections - he'd be gone soon anyway - the Bush Administration and Congress abandoned a bipartisan commitment to fiscal prudence that had held sway since the early 1990s and went back to running chronic deficits. The result was a growing economy and a second term for George W. Bush. (See George W. Bush's biggest economic mistakes...
...forms of pressure on Iran. Instead, Islamabad's focus remains on an "enhanced level of engagement" that can draw Iranian support for Pakistan's "energy, trade and communications" sectors. The new relationship with Iran has already seen a 28% rise in trade, according to Deputy Minister Khan, and with chronic shortages of electricity supply, Islamabad is eagerly awaiting the construction of a decades-old proposed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline - plans for which remain doubtful...
...environments and educating them even in simple ways, such as basic first aid, will allow a huge percentage of the world’s population to contribute to forming solutions for the world’s greatest challenges. Otherwise, they will continue to be victims of problems such as chronic poverty without being able to effectively take care of themselves...
...Sauer thought were slave wages to the Nepalese Gurkhas, who make up nearly two-thirds of the embassy's 450 guards. The situation would eventually get so bad, the POGO documents said, that it would prompt two threats of mass walkouts by the Gurkhas. Guards would end up suffering chronic sleep deprivation because the staff was 20% shorthanded...