Word: chronics
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...reflective of the real world, where someone might suffer from arthritis and heart disease and stomach problems all at once. Figuring out which drugs truly are safe and effective--and under what circumstances--is bound to become more complex as the population ages and more medications are developed for chronic conditions. Vioxx may be the biggest withdrawal of a drug in years, but it won't be the last. --With reporting by Unmesh Kher/New York
...wrote a novella about a man who literally turned into a gigantic breast. Third, Roth sees the world as a tangle of hypotheticals and what-ifs, of counterlives and forking paths and roads not taken. It is down one of those roads that his new novel lies. A chronic reviser, Roth is ready to rewrite history...
...those Oxford Group meetings that Houck befriended Bill Wilson, a.k.a. Bill W., a chronic drinker who would go on to co-found Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) in 1939. Houck joined the Oxford Group and became sober on Dec. 12, one day after Wilson did. Today, at 98, Houck is the only living person to have attended Oxford Group meetings with Wilson, who died...
...wisest way to avoid flying without wings - and crashing. - Reported by Yuki Oda/Tokyo and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong Made To Be Broken The E.U. proposed relaxing its stability and growth pact by loosening the rule requiring states to keep budget deficits below 3% of GDP. The changes will benefit chronic overspenders such as France and Germany, though other nations oppose any relaxation...
...blockbuster bank merger are already reaching Japan's sclerotic retailers. To spruce up its balance sheets for the deal, UFJ is getting tough on a borrower, the ailing supermarket giant Daiei?one of the country's biggest "zombie" companies, enterprises that continue to operate despite crushing debt and chronic unprofitability. Daiei is carrying debt of nearly $10 billion. It has little hope of ever repaying, but it has always managed to convince a trio of lenders?UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank and Mizuho Holdings?to extend additional credit at crucial moments in order to keep it alive. UFJ is urging Daiei...