With only a few weeks remaining in the current school year, New York City has launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign that asks, "It's 9 00 AM Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?" Prior attempts at reducing truancy have included celebrity messages and "robo" calls made to the homes of the chronically absent by famous rappers to encourage attendance.
Pretty much everyone's famous character, Marvin, the chronically depressed robot, is the product of almost unimaginable cruelty – not actual malevolence, just banality – whose creators chose to give him a Genuine People Personality.
The book made Carver famous and, for the first time in his chronically impecunious existence, rich.
Underlying our inhibitions about being seen out alone, I suspect, is the famous psychological phenomenon known as the spotlight effect, which describes the way we chronically overestimate how much others notice our social faux pas – or indeed notice us at all.
Davis, who will be placed on injured reserve today because of chronically injured knees, waved to the fans and gave a Mile High Salute, which he made famous during the Broncos' Super Bowl-winning seasons in 1997 and 1998.
Less than half the city's public transport facilities have been restored, and the wheels on the city's famous street-cars, even the one named Desire, are still rusty.Most important, though the number of chronically sick in the city has risen sharply, medical services remain in tatters.
He is chronically fickle.
ended up chronically unemployed.
Chronically exhausted, in fact.
Six were chronically psychotic.
