1.   A day after he canceled a trip to Vienna, pleading exhaustion, President Boris Yeltsin checked into a sanitarium outside Moscow for an indeterminate period of rest.

2.   In November, Yeltsin has canceled a trip to India and one to Vienna, pleading exhaustion.

3.   In late September, after four tournaments as a pro, he withdrew from the Buick Challenge, pleading exhaustion, and took a lot of heat for it.

4.   Next on the schedule were the Olympic Games, which, pleading exhaustion, he wanted to skip.

5.   Travis, pleading exhaustion, had asked out of one Creekside game.

6.   A day earlier, she pleaded exhaustion and said she hoped she had one good round left in her.

7.   Costa then abandoned the tournament, pleading exhaustion.

8.   Once Woods had his Tour card, he drew flak for pulling out of the Buick Challenge at the last minute pleading exhaustion.

9.   Pleading exhaustion, he canceled two scheduled appearances on national television.