Word: chronics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There is a chronic incapacity of Italian leaders to think in the long term, or even beyond the next election. To invest in proper seismic standards doesn't get you votes," says Jacopo Zanchini of the Rome-based weekly Internazionale. "We always hear about how Italians are at their best in a crisis, which may be true. But that's also because we're at our worst in trying to avoid the crisis in the first place...
...scored five runs or more in each of its last five wins. The Crimson defeated BU in both of their matchups last season. Needless to say, there is no curse, no losing streak, and no fundamental troubles with putting the bat on the ball. Without an identifiable, chronic difficulty, offensive problems seem to be inexplicable...
...surface, this seems fine. After all, this is the heyday of the chronic oversharer. Everyone talks all the time, regardless of whether anyone listens. We Tweet, we Facebook, we Gchat, we blog, we text. We share every thought, significant or un, from the moment we switch on our iPhones in the morning to the instant we sit down face to face with an actual person. The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted. Fran Lebowitz once remarked that “the opposite of talking isn?...
...symptoms of GERD, such as nausea, chest pain or heartburn, but doctors think the condition may exacerbate asthma, possibly by causing aspiration of acid into the lungs. The common practice, set forth by National Institutes of Health guidelines, is to treat asthmatic patients - particularly those who have severe and chronic disease - with acid reflux drugs, when other traditional asthma treatments don't work...
...according to Mastronarde's study, which tracked 402 adults ages 18 or older with poorly controlled chronic asthma, the drugs had no impact on symptoms. Participants were randomly assigned to either a treatment or placebo group, and followed for six months using daily asthma diaries as well as spirometry tests and questionnaires at four-week intervals. Even among the roughly 40% of patients with confirmed GERD, the medication offered no benefit over the placebo...