Using their hands and wrists all day causes techs to get carpal tunnel syndrome, which leads them to call in sick fairly frequently.

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Jorge Videla, to call in sick, so that he himself could preside over the Mass and intercede on behalf of the kidnapped priests.

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And when two Jesuit priests were kidnapped, he said he convinced a Junta leader's priest to call in sick so he might celebrate Mass at the general's home and plead for mercy.

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Unfortunately, the hospital has another policy that causes nurses to be written up if they call in sick.

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Desperate for better options, Mitchell, who was in the coin laundry business before he got sick, got his oncologist in Michigan to call Duke University, known for its brain cancer expertise (and, recently, for operating on Senator Edward Kennedy).

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They died because their friends could've died just as easily, and knowing that... they would never shirk their duties, never call in sick, never give in to fear, never let down.

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Handal says an employee should always call in sick when the illness is still contagious and his or her productivity will notably decline due to the illness.

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