Word: contact
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...squads racked up seven penalties between them for five different offenses. There was no shortage of hits—some inspired gasps from the crowd, while others drew vehement boos, and much of the contact came after the whistle...
...pairs of students, one of each gender, will work for the escort service each night, stationed in the Quad, the Yard and the River Houses. The escorts will wear clearly marked Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) vests and receive training, McLoughlin said. Each escort will also be in constant contact with HUPD and the transportation dispatcher...
...stop spim? All IM programs give you the blunt option of blocking individual users or receiving IMs only from people on your contact lists. But only ICQ, a popular IM program available at icq.com lets you filter messages more selectively by blocking all Web links (most porn spim has links in it) or certain offensive words. None of these moves will totally solve the spim problem, but each is a step in the right direction. --By Anita Hamilton
Counterprogramming against the Super Bowl has never produced television's finest hour, and this year should prove no exception. Get ready for the Lingerie Bowl, a pay-per-view spectacle featuring almost naked women playing "full contact" "seven on seven" football. The event, live from the Los Angeles Coliseum, will run during half time. Its sole sponsor, Partypoker.com stepped in after Dodge pulled out under pressure from dealers and female employees peeved at being associated with the tacky event. Unlike the outcome of Super Bowl, the score isn't expected to matter...
...late January flashed a victory sign and a broad smile as he walked into court to face breach-of-trust charges related to the 2000 takeover of German telecom firm Mannesmann by the U.K. 's Vodafone. He created a huge outcry about rich, arrogant executives. "Managers have lost contact with reality and live in an illusory world," railed Hans Leyendecker, a commentator for Süddeutsche Zeitung. Similarly, Italians have been wringing their hands since the discovery of massive fraud at Parmalat, wondering when the other wing tip would drop in what seems to be a corporate system with blind...