Word: sores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...symptoms are bad enough: sluggishness, sore muscles, fever, headaches and depression. But on top of all that, people who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome often have to endure accusations of hypochondria. Now, years after the mysterious CFS gained notoriety as the "yuppie disease," the U.S. Government is finally starting to take it seriously. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, which has been receiving about 1,000 calls a month from people who claim to be CFS victims, or from their relatives or doctors, has launched a $1 million "surveillance program" in which 350 physicians will study CFS patients...
...buried his head in his hands while we nursed his sore leg and blood blisters on his feet. He had been in the leading pack for the first 20 miles...
ISPEND nearly three hours a day, six days a week, at Newell Boathouse in order to prepare for five six-minute races in the spring. I keep going back for more exhausting practices that often leave me bleeding, blistered and sore. I even sacrificed a raffle-won Spring Break trip to Bermuda to enjoy a week of intense two-a-day practices on the sun-dappled Rio Carlos. All this despite the fact that I am not even that good at the sport compared to my teammates on the first-year lightweight squad...
...classic symptoms of flu, which begin to appear about 48 hours after exposure to the virus, include a sudden fever, chills, sore throat, headache, muscle pains, lethargy and a persistent dry cough. Although most of the symptoms subside after two to three days, victims remain contagious for an additional three or four days...
With the state fiscal crisis prompting Massachusetts officials to cut ever-farther back on local aid, the lack of tax revenue from University land is a particularly sore point for many city officials. The budget submitted by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis last month proposes a reduction of $86 million in local aid statewide...