Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when that heart-and-mind contact is lacking, the best-laid plans can be upset. Also the best-laid tables. A February business dinner at Spielberg's estate in Pacific Palisades was supposed to cinch the deal with Samsung, whose proposed stake in DreamWorks had grown from $500 million to $900 million as the talks progressed. That night the guest list swelled too, to more than a dozen, and Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg...
Certainly threads do link the most outspoken antiabortionists into a loose network. Many have signed a petition that justifies the murder of abortion doctors with arguments rooted in Christian theology. Major players are in frequent contact, sometimes through couriers to avoid possible government surveillance. They swap tactics and quietly circulate a how-to manual for clinic attacks that explains how to superglue locks, build bombs and burn clinics. Most alarming, in January a new group called the American Coalition of Life Activists released a "deadly dozen" list of abortion doctors. The Justice Department quickly dispatched U.S. marshals to protect...
...contact is with students whose ability to work and learn at Harvard is impaired by the inappropriate and harmful actions of those who occupy positions of trust. I imagine they and their peers can "trust their instincts" in deciding how to take Lat's snide and shallow column. Virginia Mackay-Smith Assistant Dean for Coeducation
...both the students and the checkers lose the benefits of having more intimate contact...
Amherst College officials immediately notified students and staff and arranged for those who had been in close contact with the two students to receive preventative antibiotics...