Most of those men were chronic smokers.
Kids around us were chronic working-class underachievers".
"If you look back at the 1980s and early 1990s, there were chronic, systemic failures.
The country's fiscal deficits, though never large, were chronic.
Most of the horrors of New York's environmental past, they say, like the grim air episodes in 1953, 1962 and 1966, were chronic and cumulative.
The governor outlined a number of changes the company, Envirotest Systems Corporation, will make at his request, saying its problems were chronic rather than piecemeal.
In the losses to the Bucks and the Magic this week, the Knicks' perimeter defense was exposed, and turnovers were chronic.
"The injuries were chronic and gradually worsened," the team said in a statement.
Dr. Holbreich had made his point: whatever forces were acting here, they were chronic, and they began before birth.
More than a quarter of Americans and Europeans who die before the age of seventy-five would not have died so soon if they'd received appropriate medical care for their conditions, most of which were chronic.
Several Agriculture Department officials said sanitation problems, including mold and algae on the walls and condensation dripping from ductwork over the processing tables, were chronic enough to justify closing the plant.
