According to the CIA World FactBook, the GDP contracted an estimated-1. 7 % in 2009.

According to the memoirs of Chen Jieru, Chiang's second wife, she contracted gonorrhea from Chiang soon after their marriage.

According to Michael Meacher, this change put an end to a previous inequity whereby two families, in otherwise identical circumstances, paid differing amounts of tax “ simply because in one case the child possessed property transferred to it by a grandparent, while in the other case the grandparent ’ s identical property was inherited by the parent .” In 1969, a “ save-as-you-earn ” scheme was introduced, designed to encourage new savings over a contracted period.

According to Herodotus the country was bound by Solon to maintain his reforms for 10 years, whereas according to Plutarch and the author of Athenaion Politeia ( reputedly Aristotle ) the contracted period was instead 100 years.

According to the BBC News, 255, 000 people on Réunion had contracted the disease as of 26 April 2006.

According to the relativity principle, objects that are at rest in S have to be contracted in S ' as well.

According to Andrew McCrum, now of Appella brand name consultants, who was brought in to find a name by Saatchi and Saatchi Design ( contracted by TranSys ), Oyster was conceived and promoted because of the metaphorical implications of security and value in the component meanings of the hard bivalve shell and the concealed pearl, the association of London and the River Thames with oysters, and the well-known travel-related idiom " the world is your oyster ".

According to this vision of the world, God contracted part of God's self into vessels of light to create the world.

According to one report, Urquidez did travel to Japan, but was unable to recover sufficiently from a high fever which he contracted from an allergic reaction to pain medication being used to treat a lingering left knuckle injury.

According to G. Cohen, the concept of self-ownership is that " each person enjoys, over himself and his powers, full and exclusive rights of control and use, and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else that he has not contracted to supply.

According to Forman's Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Ritz contracted tuberculosis in 1900, which led to his death in 1909.

According to Keep Watching the Skies !, a comprehensive history of 1950s American science fiction films, author Bill Warren claims Tucker's attempted suicide was due to depression and a dispute with the film's distributor, who had allegedly refused to pay Tucker his contracted percentage of the film's profits.

According to this information, Blackburn contracted with Edward Swan, a hotel owner in St. George's, to store them until mid-1865 and then ship them to New York City, presumably in an attempt to start an outbreak there.

According to Sanda Tătărescu Negropontes, this came as a result of tuberculosis contracted while in detention.

According to the 1997 Virgin New Adventures novel Eternity Weeps by Jim Mortimore, Liz dies in 2003, the victim of an extraterrestrial terraforming virus contracted while she was part of a UNIT team investigating an alien artefact on the Moon.

According to the WTO, the year 2001 showed "... the lowest growth in output in more than two decades ," and world trade contracted that year.

According to the Gemini 12s black box, her ill-fated maiden voyage was a covert reconnaissance mission to the 20th century, during which the unfortunate crew inadvertently contracted a 20th century influenza virus.

According to Jan-Gustaf Ljunggren, in an article in the Swedish journal Läkartidningen ( 1983 ; No 32-33 ), in the 12th century, Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani, another Muslim physician, provided the first description of Graves ' disease after noting the association of goitre and exophthalmos in his Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm, the major medical dictionary of its time.

According to him, " he practice of medicine is so specialized among them that each physician is a healer of one disease and no more.

According to the compendium of Charaka, the Charakasamhitā, health and disease are not predetermined and life may be prolonged by human effort.

According to Woolf, there are three classes of pain: nociceptive pain ( see hereunder ), inflammatory pain which is associated with tissue damage and the infiltration of immune cells, and pathological pain which is a disease state caused by damage to the nervous system ( neuropathic pain, see hereunder ) or by its abnormal function ( dysfunctional pain, like in fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, tension type headache, etc.

According to Virgil in the fourth Georgic, at one time the bees of Aristaeus, son of Apollo, all died of a disease.

According to this research, mixing the devils may increase the chance of disease.

According to the CDC approximately 5 % of people who contract typhoid continue to carry the disease after they recover.

According to the League's Covenant, it was to " endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease, even in cases of dire human hardship ".

According to this theory, female hosts select males for breeding based on such characteristics because they indicate resistance to parasites and other disease.

According to the log, the crew perished from disease.

According to John Iliffe, " Portuguese records of Angola from the 16th century show that a great famine occurred on average every seventy years ; accompanied by epidemic disease, it might kill one-third or one-half of the population, destroying the demographic growth of a generation and forcing colonists back into the river valleys.

According to Szasz, to understand the metaphorical nature of the term " disease " in psychiatry, one must first understand its literal meaning in the rest of medicine.

According to one study, reelin expression and glycosylation patterns are altered in Alzheimer's disease.

According to the Office of Rare Diseases of the National Institutes of Health trichotillomania is considered a rare disease which, according to their statistics, means that less than 200, 000 people in the United States are affected by this disorder.

According to United States data for the year 2004, for about 66 % of men and 47 % of women, the first symptom of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is heart attack or sudden cardiac death ( death within one hour of onset of the symptom ).

" According to myth, Resheph exerted a benign influence against disease.

According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, doing jigsaw puzzles is one of many activities that can help keep the brain active and may contribute to reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

According to Anishinaabe oral tradition, to purify the island from disease, the people burned their settlements as they left.

According to those who use the term ' productivism ', the difference between themselves and the promoters of conventional neoclassical economics is that a productivist does not believe in the idea of " uneconomic growth ", i. e. the productivist believes all growth is good, while the critic of productivism believes it can be more like a disease, measurably growing but interfering with life processes, and that it is up to the electorate, worker and purchaser to put values on their free time and decide whether to use their time for production or their money for consumption.

According to Osho, " homosexuals, because they were perverted, created the disease AIDS " and also suggested that " homosexuals should be given different localities.

According to some contemporary accounts he died from " apoplexy ", and according to others he died from " heart disease ".

According to CORE, “ school segregation a damaging bacteria, a psychological handicap, which a disease generating widespread unemployment and crime in Chicago .”

According to his obituary in the Evening Standard, O ' Donnell had been suffering from Parkinson's disease in his later years.

According to a 2007 World Health Organization ( WHO ) report, 1. 1 billion people lack access to an improved drinking water supply, 88 percent of the 4 billion annual cases of diarrheal disease are attributed to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene, and 1. 8 million people die from diarrheal diseases each year.