"It's just a cold, really strong upper low, " said Carol Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, Calif.
"They say, 'Well, we'll tell her it's just a cold, or it's just a virus, or we'll tell her she'll have surgery and then everything will be fine, '" said Dr. Lawrence Wolfe, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.
Whooping cough, or pertussis, may look like just like a cold or a persistent cough in adults.
When Medicare sneezes, hospitals do more than just catch a cold.
'After all, ' my husband said, 'it's just a box that gets cold.
If a child did not show up for class, I did not know if there had been a major turn for the worse or just a bedding down with the suspicion of a cold.
They were given a storage room to sleep in -- there were no windows, no electricity and just a plastic sheet on the cold, damp cement floor.
She signalled for him to wait, and when she entered the bedroom the air-conditioned atmosphere made her shiver as though she had just stepped into a pool of cold water.
If you're one of the many, many BlackBerry Storm buyers who cleaned out inventories at Verizon stores on Friday, all that time spent waiting in the cold just became a bit more worthwhile.
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Helicopters and rescue vehicles gave chase while millions held their breath because they thought a 6-year-old boy might be sailing through the skies, cold, frightened and just a gust of wind from falling.
Dr. TRENBERTH: Well, you know, just recently we've had a very large cold outbreak and, you know, some of this might just be weather, but the other thing we need to consider - and certainly we talk about it a lot as scientists - is El Nino.
This is the Cold War that we're talking about here and just, we wanted to draw attention to the Cold War for a few minutes, just one question - where do you, with your expertise, stand on the question of the civil service and whether it is under threat?
There are a couple of hot pools and a cold one, too - just to get the heart going - so it is best to stick a toe in before doing your cannonball.
So I find myself in a refurbished Cold War bunker just north of Philadelphia where the future of the long-haul electric business is on full display.
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They forged alliances that won a long Cold War, so let us build the partnership for a just and lasting peace.
And there is something about its ice-cold temperature that just makes salmorejo a good fit with the sun-scorched region.
By then we were back in New York, and it was windy and cold, which just shocks you a little closer to the cultural slipstream, even if you're technically still trying to be on vacation.
The waiting room is usually cold and sterile, enlivened by just a few company trinkets to divert your focus from your impending 30-minute inquisition.
After just an hour the beach was a winter beach, cold and gray and the dead kelp like the hair of the drowned, and it stayed that way despite all attempts.
It was very cold, and I just didn't find a better solution to come back.
But that would be cold comfort for a politician who's just watched his signature achievement gutted or destroyed.
On just about every cold sidewalk in New Hampshire is someone with a clipboard, carrying campaign literature and peering up at house numbers.
These hot, blue giants would have grown out of the cold neutral gas that pervaded the young cosmos just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
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Requiring that short-sellers actually have the ability to deliver the shares they are legally obligated to deliver would do just that, putting some badly needed clothes on a still very cold market.
Mr. ISAAC HAYES (Singer): Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven.
I'd forgone the wine, but cold water freshly filtered from a nearby stream was just as sweet.
Five years ago, when I first addressed this assembly, the Cold War had only just ended and the transition to a new era was beginning.
Exhausted, cold and hungry, they died just 11 miles from a supply depot in March 1912, having made it to the South Pole in January of that year only to find Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it.
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