It is a chronic local malady, rooted in the presumption that no event can have much value until New York is thrust to center stage.

Her lovers seemed to have chronic maladies, a skin condition or a joint replacement.

Congress expanded Medicare last year to cover catastrophic illnesses requiring hospitalization and skilled nursing, but it did not provide for long-term care for chronic maladies.

Unfortunately, the experiment was largely a failure, and Isabella did not recover from her chronic malady.

Congress has already authorized disability payments of up to $21,876 per year for veterans with chronic maladies that appeared within two years after the war.

In much more recent years chronic maladies have taken over from acute ones.

The main building of the Abbott House was previously a hospital called "Irvington House", which dealt primarily in the care of children with chronic maladies.

Hearst was shocked to see 28-year-old May bedridden with the chronic malady which had inflicted her.

It has been called a symptom of the "deep and chronic malady afflicting the Bihar government and quite a few other state governments as well."

The chronic Latin American malady of corrupt, incompetent, violent government has not been eased by armed interventions.