Word: chronical
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...uncommon in people with severe mental disorders and they see Dignitas as an easy, clean way out. It is morally and ethically wrong to help them die." Minelli defends Dignitas' action, saying psychological pain can be just as wrenching as physical suffering. "There are cases of longtime chronic mental disorders that defy treatment," he says. "And many of these people have long periods of lucidity when they are capable of deciding for themselves." Minelli used to work as a legal counsel for another Swiss assisted-suicide group, which did not accept clients from outside the country. He founded Dignitas...
...comparison I would wish to discourage, because obviously, Bridget Jones reached an awful lot of readers." But, she says, "My own feeling is that if poor Bridget had to live one week of Kate Reddy's life, she would be admitted to the emergency room, in a chronic state of shock." Pearson, the wife of New Yorker writer Anthony Lane and mother of two young children, has sold her novel to 16 other countries. Miramax has bought the film rights. Who would she like to play Kate Reddy? "Maybe Nicole Kidman or Tea Leonie," she confides...
...decaying department store has a meager selection of basic packaged food and dull clothing. At night, schoolchildren gather in the main square to read under the floodlights pointed at a statue of Kim Il Sung, the country's founder. It's the brightest spot in a city plagued by chronic electrical power shortages. Meanwhile, across the Yalu River in the Chinese city of Dandong, new, white buildings rise above the riverbank, traffic clogs the streets, and moving walkways roll through a local shopping mall past stores stuffed with Nike shoes and Coca-Cola...
...Midterm: Let’s see these monkeys smoke chronic...
...grandpa too, which is why he kept his power tools in the basement. Still, scientific protocol demands that whenever doctors set out to repackage a perennial human sorrow as a modern, billable disease, they have to act as if they are on to something big. How else could chronic sleepiness have become Primary Hypersomnia...