The world is said to be like a hospital in which countless people, even infants in cradles, lie down in sickness.
The report said performance levels were expected to improve when the weather improved and there was a reduction in sickness and an increase in staff morale.
In short, the two men may be inextricably bound together: in good times and in bad and, as Mr Berlusconi may have reflected this week, in sickness and in health.
Haunted by a tragedy in her own past, fearful that if she doesn't help Gary he will leave her, she hauls logs out to Caribou Island in good weather and terrible storms, in sickness and in health, to patch up their marriage while building the kind of cabin that had brought them to Alaska in the first place.
Oh, yes. (Laughter.) In all seriousness, there is a sickness in Europe, an economic sickness that threatens a contagion here in the United States.
There is no direct evidence that a similar outbreak at schools in Shropshire is linked to the sickness in Powys.
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The new terms include a reduction in full sickness pay entitlement, freezing the performance related pay scheme and replacing the use of a national pay bargaining system with a local one.
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Auburn University has bucked that trend by discovering a way to put active viruses to work in not only diagnosing sickness, but in preventing it in the first place.
The Politics Show has discovered that council workers in Cumbria and the North East took a million days off work with sickness in the previous financial year.
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Opponents in the UK and the United States, where it is widespread, say it can cause environmental pollution and sickness in local populations.
Catherine, who was hospitalized with acute morning sickness in December, recently returned to public duties.
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Almost 30 people died from radiation sickness in the immediate aftermath, and several hundred were hospitalised.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization say 28 emergency workers died of radiation sickness in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.
Approximately 1, 000 children die of diarrheal sickness in India every day.
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Figures obtained under a Freedom of Information request showed 22, 847 days were lost to sickness in the calendar year 2011, compared with 17, 807 in 2010 and 19, 172 in 2009.
More attention will be given to extreme sickness in early pregnancy, and women with this condition will be taken more seriously - which can only be a good thing.
According to the report, four out of six council departments bettered this target but the high sick leave in social services resulted in an overall sickness absence figure for the authority of 12.9 days.
He stood stubbornly in the face of sickness... and bore what mountains cannot bear.
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According to the CBI, the equivalent sickness rate in the private sector was 6.5 days per employee.
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Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip, 91, has had several hospital stays, but Elizabeth has rarely let sickness get in the way of her still-busy schedule.
There, deep cuts in unemployment benefit and sickness pay have been made, while limited labour-market reforms have helped push down unemployment to little more than half German levels.
The government asked Professor Carol Black and the former head of the British Chambers of Commerce David Frost to consider radical changes to deal with the human and financial cost of sickness absence in the workplace.
The report recommends that targets for sickness absence should be reintroduced in health trusts and should include specific targets for long-term sickness absence levels.
Meanwhile, in Germany, "sickness funds"--the equivalent of insurance companies--have imposed strict budgets on doctors for prescription drugs.
Conversely, several heart-failure medicines are now in use to treat altitude sickness or help with acclimatization, researchers say.
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Again, about 60 percent of the skeptical parents would change their mind in the event of community sickness and death.
His union, the National Union of Teachers, said it was short-sighted of the government to think that better management in schools would cut the sickness figures.
The hospital also urged people attending with medical problems to inform staff immediately if they have experienced symptoms or have been in contact with someone with sickness.
Still, nearly 60 percent of those who say they don't think they'll get vaccinated would change their minds if there were sickness or death in their community, the study found.
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