1. Bout - a period of doing something, or a match or contest
in e.g I attended a sumo wrestling BOUT in Japan.
She's currently suffering from a BOUT of flu.
2. Panicked - a sudden alarm or terror
in e.g I PANICKED when I thought I lost my wallet.
PANIC buying spreaded over Japan after the earthquake.
3. Invoice - a statement that shows the list of goods and the price to be paid for them
Photo of an INVOICE: http://images.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/excel-invoice-template.gif
Payment is due winthin 30 days upon receipt of the INVOICE.
I asked the teller to give me a copy of my INVOICE.
4. Heart-stopping - extremely shocking or exciting
in e.g The circus performers gave a HEART-STOPPING show.
There are a lot of HEART-STOPPING views in America
5. Anguish - extreme suffering, fear or pain
in e.g He has suffered a great deal of ANGUISH after his house got burned down.
She experienced the ANGUISH of divorce after 5 years of marriage.
6. Manpower - the number of people available to work
in e.g We have enough MANPOWER to manage the hospital.
Currently, we are experiencing a shortage of MANPOWER at the construction site.
Hospital Bills Pneumonia Patient $44 Million
Medical bills in the USA are known to be quite high, but one patient got the shock of his life when he received a bill for over $44 million. New Yorker Alex Rodriguez, 28, visited the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital after suffering a bout of pneumonia.
All he did was see some doctors and get a prescription for drugs to treat his condition. The total cost of his treatment was under $300. When the bill arrived on his doorstep for $44,776,587, Rodriguez said he almost had an asthma attack. He immediately thought the bill was real and panicked. Thoughts went through his mind of how he was going to find the millions when he was unemployed. He thought the bill was related to three weeks he spent in hospital 9 months earlier.
It turned out that Mr Rodriguez was not the only patient to be billed tens of millions of dollars for coughs and colds. A computer error in the accounts department of the company that processes the invoices has sent dozens more people the heart-stopping bills.
The company admitted that someone put the 8-digit invoice number in the box for the billed amount. Mr Rodriguez told journalists from “The Daily News” that he was angry the company’s mistake caused him so much worry and anguish. He said: “I think they should have somebody look over the bills before they send them out…I understand manpower may be down, but to send out a lot of bills with numbers that big - someone could have had a heart attack.”
