Word: chronics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dublin. Walsh clipped Aer Lingus' staff numbers by about a third and trimmed costs, part of a "culture to pare everything down to the bone," says Gill. But the ex-pilot failed to push through further job cuts before his departure in January. And rising fuel costs and chronic staff troubles could make it hard to get similar steps at BA off the ground. - By Adam Smith Trading Flaws Frankfurt's Deutsche Börse bowed to pressure from rebel shareholders and shelved its $2.5 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange. LSE shares promptly tanked. Pan-European rival Euronext...
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOVING AND INsightful cover story on ways to manage chronic pain [Feb. 28]. As a person who has battled debilitating pain for more than five years, I read it with tears in my eyes. But I was encouraged that your magazine took the crucial step of shifting the focus away from pills to other ways of treating the sources of pain. And I can't thank you enough for including fibromyalgia in your article. Many of us who suffer from it still face doctors who fail to recognize this excruciating disease--plunging us into a nightmare...
...Chronic liver disease [down...
...depleted of nutrients and organic matter that even if the rains are good, the households still go hungry. If the rains fail, the households face the risk of death from severe undernutrition. Stunting, meaning low height for one's age, is widespread, a sign of pervasive and chronic undernutrition of the children...
BOOSTING AGRICULTURE With fertilizers, cover crops, irrigation and improved seeds, Sauri's farmers could triple their food yields and quickly end chronic hunger. Grain could be protected in locally made storage bins using leaves from the improved fallow species tephrosia, which has insecticide properties...