Word: chronics
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...while still maintaining enough social distance between races for whites to benefit materially and psychologically. Globalization, however, wreaked havoc on this pre-1960s American social order as manufacturing jobs (and social mobility) moved to the suburbs and then overseas. Pushed into benefit-deprived, unstable service economy jobs, or into chronic un- or underemployment, black workers confined to the bottom of the economic hierarchy became economically unviable as laborers. Herded into the abandoned central cities, this black urban “underclass” revolted in the mid-1960s against these conditions in a series of urban “riots?...
...accordance with a national shortage of flu vaccines this fall, Massachusetts restricted the vaccine to patients 75 years old and above and high-risk patients, including those suffering from diseases like cystic fibrosis, kidney disease and chronic lung problems...
...guidelines will also allow hospitals and health clinics to vaccinate all children aged six to 23 months, parents of children six months and younger, persons two to 64 years with any underlying chronic medical conditions, all women who will be pregnant during influenza season, and all residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities...
...police force under the close watch of foreign advisers, the mission's youthful bureaucrats are taking charge of battered economic and development institutions. The economy has gone steadily backward: per-capita income has fallen 50% since independence in 1978. The ethnic tensions and brutality of 1998-2003 masked a chronic illness in Solomon Islands, for which there is no off-the-shelf cure. "Our leaders have not lived up to the expectations of the people that have put them into power," says Central Bank governor Rick Hou, one of the country's most respected officials. "It's a pity...
Beyond these ephemeral pluses and minuses at this year’s particular tailgate lies a chronic problem that will continue to plague future tailgates: alcohol policy. There is no question that some serious miscommunications between the Dean’s Office, the Undergraduate Council and BPD over expected attendance levels and alcohol policy led to some of BPD’s post-Game flare-up. Captain Evans seemed shocked by the perceived omnipresence of hard alcohol. “People were just carrying jugs around with Jack Daniels, vodka and tequila,” he said. But the presence...