Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many cities and towns, for example, have devised procedures to deal with public employees with AIDS. Most of the guidelines are based upon recommendations from various state and federal health agencies. The federal Centers for Disease Control found that AIDS cannot be transmitted by "casual contact" and that precautions in the workplace are rarely needed...
...originally planned mainly to help the actors improve their techniques, the students in yesterday's class seemed as fascinated with the actress herself as they were with her advice. Katherine Robin '87, a participant in the workshop, said, "I really liked her. I was impressed with how normal and casual she was. She sure wasn't very `Amish.''' Robin added that it was "neat to see other interpretations [of the scene] ahead of me. The role of Nina is a very `choicy' part, and this was a good way to review the number of choices I had to make...
...WITH reporters' pestering queries about the Philippines, President Reagan retorted with a casual expression of discontent. He swore...
...other words, those people now recognized to suffer from the disease are only the tip of the iceberg. Although these statistics estimate a large population of people carrying the virus, at the present time there are no known cases of AIDS transmission by casual contact. This fact becomes significant in light of the countless hours of contact between health care workers and AIDS patients, especially those millions of person-hours of contact before doctors understood the viral nature of the disease and thus its possible dangers...
...length Toad could see his own changes of mood in the handwriting. He could read haste when he had hurried. He thought that handwriting would make a fine lie-detector test, or a foolproof drunkometer. Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram...