Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she finally reached Sudan, even Seaman was not sure what she had signed on for. "My legs swelled up to twice their size with mosquito bites," she says, "and I was ready to cut my one-year contract short by 11 months." But she was clearly captivated by the place and stunned by the enormity of the human catastrophe around the town of Duar, the center of the epidemic. "If you witness a tragedy like that, how can you not be moved?" she explains. "Where else in the world could 50% of a population die without anyone knowing...
...more complicated. To start with, different neurons specialize in releasing different neurotransmitters. Many carry messages that convey facts about the outside world--incoming sounds, patterns of light and so on--and integrate them into useful information. Some neurotransmitters also carry messages of action, telling muscles when to release or contract...
...drop in rates is a result of the telephone office's summer contract renegotiation with MCI--Harvard's long distance provider-said Coordinator of Student Telephone Service Robert E. Grenier...
According to some, the Morgan routine so well balanced sarcasm and sophistication that the notorious "I-banking intensity" surrounded only those who have yet to sign a contract...
...dress that had been bought at the Christie's auction of Diana's clothes. The purchaser paid $25,300 but has reportedly turned down $150,000. In Macau a Volvo dealership used a photograph of Diana in an ad touting the safety of its cars (Volvo canceled its contract). Finally, in Boston, three masked men tried to steal two dresses of Diana's that were in the window of a boutique. An armed guard thwarted them, and the dresses are to be auctioned off, as planned, one for an AIDS charity called Community Servings...