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Therefore, like other neglected diseases, chronic infection with hookworm promotes long-term disability and increases the likelihood that an afflicted population will remain mired in poverty.
Vice President Gore's aides blame their boss' sorry poll numbers on the same strain of "vice-presidentitis" that afflicted the early days of George Bush's 1988 run.
In the case of Bob Dole, afflicted reporters repeat the well-grooved narrative of his Wound, Recovery, New Sensitivity, because it makes for a good and easy story--and because it fits with their line that the formerly taciturn/stoic, mean/hatchet-wielding Dole has evolved, even when the record shows that he's been a serial blubberer since the '70s and, despite the tears, is just as mean as ever.
The financial crises that have shaken much of the world all started, at least in the first instance, with investors betting that the currency of the afflicted nation would fall in value against harder currencies such as the dollar.
Outwardly normal, the afflicted children are anti-social monsters: One adoptive mother has been charged with murdering her uncontrollable son.