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Plummer said that she was taking the drug to her Egyptian boyfriend, who suffers from chronic pain, and that she did not know she was breaking Egyptian law.
But chronic stalemate has confronted many Asian democracies with the threat of being discredited, a potential for violence, and the prospect of economic decline.
Worse, the whole economy suffers from chronic sclerosis.
Many cancers are likely caused by chronic viral infections, another reason that it is surely more sensible to attack infectious diseases by improving access to clean water, basic sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccines than it is to build radiotherapy facilities.
In other words, nearly one in five Indians suffers from chronic hunger.
Although it is impossible to anticipate how Mexico’s many contemporary crises will end, we do know that in the coming years Mexico will continue to be characterized by a combination of solid macroeconomic numbers, chronic inequality, and structural violence.
Investments in effective prevention, treatment and research in 2005 and 2006 will save millions of lives, lessen the socio-economic impact of the diseases in poorer countries, and remove the need for increased spending on these chronic crises in the future.
International investors were initially quite willing to finance the government, but risk premia started to increase when the deficits became chronic.
The US has run chronic current-account deficits for almost two generations.
And a robust civil society is a recipe for chronic bickering and conflict.
Instead, it is Europe’s lack of a vision and narrative for the future – with which it could address issues like chronic unemployment, capital flight, and the ever-tightening grip of austerity – that keeps people awake at night, and that fosters populism, dismay, and internal disarray.
Here America found itself allied with some strange bedfellows that it normally rebukes as chronic human rights violators - Cuba, China, Iran, Libya, Sudan or Zimbabwe.
At the same time, non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, are rising, while previously deadly conditions, such as HIV/AIDS, are now more treatable and have been deemed chronic diseases.
The result has been chronic violence and instability, leading to massive refugee flows into Europe that have upended politics in one EU member state after another.
The second reason is Europe’s now chronic under-investment, especially by the public sector.
Italy straddles the two sides of Europe: a dynamic north, and chronic malaise in the south (the Mezzogiorno).
They designed antiretroviral drugs that have made it possible for HIV infection to be a survivable chronic condition.
Its chronic indecisiveness about the North and unwillingness to use its leverage, thus shielding its socialist ally, seems to reveal to the wider world a China obsessed with its own narrow interests.
They cite the southern European countries’ chronic external deficits.
Indeed, numerous studies of military personnel, certain patient groups, and normal volunteers demonstrate that chronic and severe stressors compromise psychological functioning, causing tissue loss in brain regions supporting memory (the hippocampal formation), and decreased activity in brain regions supporting intention, planning, and regulating complex behavior (the frontal lobes).
Studies conducted with patients in chronic pain or with volunteers on whom pain is inflicted demonstrate that physical suffering impairs cognition, memory, and mood.
Severe political uncertainty against a backdrop of chronic slow growth and a sovereign-debt level currently hovering around 160% of GDP already is enough to trigger a debt crisis.
Unless the eurozone moves toward greater economic, fiscal, and political integration (on a path consistent with short-term restoration of growth, competitiveness, and debt sustainability, which are needed to resolve unsustainable debt and reduce chronic fiscal and external deficits), recessionary deflation will certainly lead to a disorderly break-up.
Given Britain’s chronic trade and current-account deficits, an exit from the euro would have necessarily caused a decline in the international value of UK bank deposits.
Third, faced with chronic economic disorder and political instability, Egyptians increasingly lament the “hijacking” of the revolution, fueling mistrust of the country’s governing elites.
Despite being a period of chronic high unemployment, corporate bankruptcies, and continuing financial difficulties, the 1930’s recorded the fastest productivity growth of any decade in US history.
To this end, health-care companies should shift the focus of their research-and-development efforts toward conditions that are prevalent among older patients, including chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, glaucoma, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer.
After WWII, repeated shifts between Labour and Conservative governments led to stop-go policies that heightened uncertainty and created chronic financial problems.
The government’s failure to eradicate chronic regional tension underscores the limits of central authority in China, which was partly intentional.
They could also address chronic teacher shortages through expedient recruitment of Syrian refugee teachers.
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