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There's certainly room for improvement in the Barnes's management, which has been exposed, through publicly released audits and court documents, as chronically chaotic.

Spanish chroniclers wrote that Inca quipu makers "read" the strings to early colonial overlords keen on cataloging their spoils.

But Eisner is best known for his 1940s detective series, The Spirit, one of the first strips to chronicle the common man's struggles.

Abolishing the problem of the master of the house, the family of future will not only avoid chronic scandals, concerning the questions of whose salary is higher and who keeps the house, but will also protect itself against family life parasitism of some members of a family and against exploitation in family life.

Writer/director Stacy Peralta, who chronicled the history of skateboarding a few years back with Dogtown and Z-Boys, and surf mega-kahuna Laird Hamilton will be on hand, along with a dozen or so other wave boys in the film, including Jeff Clark and Greg Noll, names that make surf-types swoon.

Those who have spent time in his company have found him to be a tense, tortured presence, given to shyness, chain-smoking and chronic worry about the possible pitfalls of his own success: egomania, artistic decline, a life spent behind smoked glass.

The diet Dr. Hays and his colleagues arrived at to treat patients with chronic diabetes and atherosclerosis is similar to the ANA with regard to restricting carbohydrate intake rather than fat consumption.

In truth, the skeptics and chronic dyspeptics stand a good chance of being more right than wrong by the time April rolls around.

Media across the nation chronicled the turn from steel- mill blight to a Pittsburgh with panache.

The movie chronicles the development of China's first nuclear bomb as seen through civilian and military eyes.

It's fated, you see?" A long time ago, before Meredith and long before Chase, Carter was married to Isabel, who was small and fair and thin and rich, truly beautiful and chronically unfaithful.

It is hardly my intention to take issue with another person's misery; nevertheless, I should say right now--at the outset of our evening together--that in this or any family certain moods and states of mind will be dominant and chronic to the extent that they are no longer perceivable as moods, but as routine personality traits, shared attributes--those supervening aspects of character that, because supervening, come to signify membership in the family circle.

Although I wasn't aware of deep play at the time, I often lived it, unknowingly recorded its features, and chronicled many of its moods.

The great London chronicler and antiquarian John Stow describes the street as `so called of milk sold there; there be many fair houses for wealthy merchants and other[s]'. More was the scion of a wealthy and influential family; the churches closest to his house showed visible evidence of that urban power.

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