Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of contamination by casual contact: The lecture emphasized that transmission by means other than sexual, maternal, blood transfusion, organ donation or intravenous drug abuse was so low as not to be measureable. However, in the lecture it was argued that to assure the public that there would never be transmission by any other route was to invite future trouble as the attendant press coverage of such an event would be damaging. The argument made was that even if documented such cases would not alter the overwhelming fact that infection is not casually transmitted. The photo caption "AIDS can probably...
Less than five hours later, the President stunned Senator Lugar and most of the other election observers with his casual but devastating news-conference remarks. Reagan said Lugar's delegation had briefed him on the "appearance of fraud" during the voting. Then he said the observers had told him that "they didn't have any hard evidence beyond that general appearance." At this point he got in real trouble by adding that it was also possible that fraud "was occurring on both sides...
...relation to nature did not look simple. The painting was no botanical illustration. It was full of pictorial feeling and seemed only part factual, with the studied ineloquence, the refusal to grab a viewer's lapels, that one gets in Jasper Johns or Cy Twombly. Its drawing was casual, but intelligently so. It used botany obscurely, for some ulterior end--but what? And did it look better than it was for being surrounded by trash? To test that, one had to wait for a full show. That exhibit is now on view, at SoHo's Sonnabend Gallery, through February...
AIDS may spread throught casual contact, Haseltine said. Although it is is currently known to be transmitted only by sex, donated blood, organs, and semen, and from pregnant mothers to their unborn children, it may also be transmissible by tears, saliva, bodily fluids, and mosquito bites...
...Anyone who tells you categorically that [AIDS] is not contracted by saliva is not telling you the truth," he said. "There are sure to be cases of proved transmission through casual contact...