Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Catch the fever, as Major League Baseball's saying used...
After banking, next in line for the takeover fever are automobiles, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Who benefits most from this? One sector that surely is not suffering is the overseas branches of American investment banks, which have vaulted ahead of their European financial rivals in advising European companies on mergers and acquisitions. In 1998 Morgan Stanley ranked first as the leading financial adviser of completed transactions in Europe, followed by Goldman Sachs. Warburg Dillon Read, an adviser based in Britain, had held the top spot for the two previous years...
...vaccine's main side effects are soreness and redness at the site of the injection. A few unlucky people also develop fever, chills and other flulike symptoms that can last up to three days. Doctors have voiced concern that the vaccine could make matters worse for folks who are already unknowingly infected with Lyme spirochetes at the time of inoculation. Researchers looked for these problems during the vaccine's trial and didn't find any, but that doesn't mean they won't surface later...
From letters to the War Department, she reads that his company had been sent from Ohio to Fort Ellsworth in Virginia, not far from where she now sits. Seif landed in the hospital with an illness called camp fever; he never returned to his regiment. "When he came home, he looked like a dead boy," declared the affidavit of an Ohio friend. For years after the war, Seif wrote to Washington requesting a pension increase, complaining of neuralgia, lumbago, catarrh, headaches and heart trouble. By 1927, the year he died, Seif was receiving $90 a month, an amount granted, according...
...Senior Bar nonetheless and sip my beer, watching the vista spread out before me. Over there's the doctor who will cure my fever, standing next to me is my future senator, who's talking to the author of the book that will make me laugh, late at night, after I've put the kids to bed. I'd like to meet them all tonight, but I have the feeling that I'll be seeing them again sometime soon. Joshua Derman is a philosophy concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...