Word: contacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maintain contact with his constituency, Barrios meets with his neighborhood advisory committee and his informal cabinet...
...pair of 10-year-olds appeared before a judge on felony charges that they tried to kill or injure their teacher. One of them squirted soap gel into the teacher's water bottle as the other watched. The teacher wasn't hurt, but he felt threatened enough to contact police...
...just one disease. Arthritis is a whole class of illnesses that comes in more than a hundred varieties. About 20 million people in the U.S., for example, have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease in which cartilage that cushions the joints erodes, leading to painful bone-on-bone contact. And 3 million or so more have rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammation of the joints that causes pain, stiffness, swelling and loss of function...
...afternoon picks up for Wang when she and Mike hold a meeting with their main "contact" in the client's product engineering department. This meeting gives me a view of the working relationship between client and consultant that I haven't had all day. Even though some important issues are being discussed, the atmosphere is very informal and relaxed; the client contact seems to trust Mike and Wang to be on his team. The meeting wanders from a demonstration of a nifty PowerPoint presentation tool (a hallmark of consulting) to a discussion of engineering challenges (in which both Wang...
...love Sherri for the way she embraces everyone with open arms, and how she genuinely cares about everyone with whom she comes into contact. I love how Sherri will be the first one to notice how others are feelings--sharing in their happiness and comforting them in their sorrow. She does not judge others, even if they have hurt her in the past. To Sherri, every day is a clean slate, a fresh opportunity to laugh, share and learn from one another. And Sherri has never given up. Even when teased by the neighborhood girls, her long ago-playmates, when...