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Government figures show one in 10 people of working age are now on disability or sickness benefits of some type, including Pip, which can be claimed at the same time as being employed.

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After the longer holiday was piloted last year, he noticed a huge drop in staff absence and sickness.

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I am plagued by motion sickness, of which the most pernicious variety is “sim sickness.”

In medieval England, word spread about a so-called "sweating sickness" that was said to kill its victims within six hours.

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But the British number one's decision to curtail her season two weeks early, and miss events in Tokyo and Hong Kong because of lingering sickness, is a sound one.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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