Word: chronics
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...circulated a declaration of grievances remonstrating against the cold shoulder the administration has turned to students recently. While we take issue with the petulant and self-righteous tone with which the declaration was written, we wholeheartedly sympathize with many of its complaints. The Harvard administration’s chronic deafness to student voices has alarmingly limited undergraduate input into the conduct and affairs of our University. As students, we do not demand that our opinions be put into immediate effect, but that our counsel be heard and given some degree of credence. We do not think this too much...
...Sixty freshman have signed a contract to take the class, which targets middling students, those "on the edge of being successful," explains Euel Bunton, principal of Phillips. While results of the program aren't yet in, attendance of AVID students is 90% - a promising sign in a school where chronic truancy has been a problem...
...debate first became heated over the issue that tops voter concerns: France's sluggish economy and chronic unemployment. For Sarkozy, there's no mystery to the malaise: "It's because we work less than others do." Though he doesn't advocate a full reversal of the 35-hour working week introduced by a Socialist government in 1998, he wants to free both employers and employees from paying payroll tax and insurance charges on overtime hours. Royal's response: "I prefer to give work to those who don't have any," especially through a government-funded program to give six-month...
...Clean bill of health? Not exactly. At 61, Alem?n is obese and reportedly in frail health, suffering from ten different chronic illnesses...
...cost as much as $3 million over several years, co-chairman of the NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Committee, Dr. Ira Casson, said the study aimed to determine “whether or not a career in the NFL results in any kind of chronic brain injury...