Word: contagion
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...heard the rumblings early on, and knew the risks of contagion were high - especially given the TV attention," says Nicolas Perruchot, a Blois native who was so taken aback by project rioting in late 2000 that he led a law-and-order campaign for mayor that unseated long-time office holder, Socialist Jack Lang in March 2001. Though Perruchot has also mounted urban renovation programs to improve public housing, and used tax exemptions to lure business and jobs out to the projects, he says he was elected on promises to restore order, by residents of the city center and northern...
...school district too, the war created holes that had to be filled and that began to feel like a contagion. First, grade-school librarian Nolan Brown, a grandfather, Vietnam vet and National Guardsman, was called up for a desk job in Baghdad. Math teacher Kathy Mannon stepped into his post. Eleven days later, her husband Dennis, the librarian at the high school, was called up by the Air Force Reserve. Retired teacher Judy Gray, nearing 60, volunteered to fill in for him. Gray's own daughter Regina Jones had just seen her husband Albert leave for Iraq too. Jones...
...whom are infected through drug abuse. Though much has been made of the role of anal intercourse in the transmission of AIDS among homosexuals, the AIDS virus is almost certainly spread through vaginal intercourse as well. The vulnerability of prostitutes raises the specter of a major new source of contagion...
...everyone exposed to the AIDS virus has contracted the disease. Some have developed a flu-like condition known as ARC (AIDS-related complex), which may or may not progress to the more lethal syndrome. Others have so far displayed no symptoms at all but remain capable of spreading the contagion...
...stake in PetroChina, it could set a precedent. Samantha Powers, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, told The Crimson that although divestment is an “unproven tool” against genocide, Harvard’s decision might “unleash a contagion effect” among other institutions...