Word: emphysema
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy statements; the Soviet public has not seen a single picture of him on holiday. The mystery deepened last week: Chernenko did not appear at closing ceremonies of the Friendship '84 Games, despite expectations that he might. ABC News reported that Chernenko, who is said to suffer from emphysema, returned to Moscow in a wheelchair and may be undergoing medical treatment, but the item could not be confirmed...
...been the syndicator of Devil's Bag. So he commended one horse but owned the other. As Devil's Bag's form was declining, Swale was winning the Florida Derby, and Hancock was caught between a frown and a smile. Meanwhile, Stephens fell ill from emphysema, compounded by a rib-rattling fall and exasperated by the collapse of the special horse. "Devil's Bag just never found himself this year," murmured Stephens, 70, who was furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled old Woody said with the brave gleam...
After meeting Chernenko, British Social Democratic Leader David Owen, a physician, said that he thought the new Soviet leader was suffering from emphysema, a disease marked by shortness of breath...
DIED. Robert Docking, 57, Democratic Governor of Kansas who served a record four terms (1967-74), cutting taxes, curtailing state spending and calling out the National Guard and state troopers in 1970 to deal with racial troubles; of emphysema; in Arkansas City, Kans...
Children whose mothers smoke face increased chances of contracting respiratory diseases such as emphysema, Harvard Medical School researchers have found...