Word: contacter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little we know is clear enough: HIV, a virus transmitted by bodily fluids, is contracted most often through unprotected sexual contact. It lies dormant within the body for anywhere from six months to, in a few cases, decades, and then appears to destroy the immune system. Drug treatment can delay the effects, but in the end, HIV weakens the immune system to the point where an opportunistic infection, something the body normally could fight easily, runs uncontrolled and causes death...
...says he gained was "being able to manage and coordinate the efforts of, what was back then, 85 people, and to motivate and excite a large group of people like that to do things." He still keeps in touch with the then-treasurer and secretary, and also keeps contact with other council people on a "professional basis--a lot of them are all over the place doing all sorts of different things." Some of the efforts that went on that year included an early discussion of House randomization. "We had some incredibly interesting debates between students and faculty about...
...Wang has people to see. She heads out into the sea of cubicles to meet with her contact in the client's finance department. At his desk, she doesn't sit down--but stands by the end of his desk and takes control of the meeting. Wang exhibits the same sensitivity to people's state of mind that she showed with Conrad--she asks the man about his daughter and about the progress of his new home. The unspoken message is that she understands how full his plate is. She leaves him with a so-called structured task, as planned...
...asks anyone with information about the crime to contact Sergeants McSweeney or Sullivan. They can be reached...
Sylvia's doctor father sternly forbids contact between them; it endangers his hard-won position. Ben's father Nate (Joe Mantegna) is distractedly against it too, though most of his attention is focused on his two troubled businesses--a failing burlesque house and a numbers racket threatened by an obstreperous black man named Little Melvin (Orlando Jones), who portends the violent, irrational '60s, just a historical nanosecond away...