Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Number of dormant Swiss bank accounts, according to a 1995 Swiss investigation...
...Number of dormant Swiss accounts held by Holocaust victims, according to a recently released independent-panel investigation...
...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...
...property is out there? It's a huge number. States currently hold about $16 billion. Estimates of federal holdings--lost IRS refunds, undeliverable Social Security checks--run as high as $25 billion. Corporations that fail to remit assets to the states may hold an additional $100 billion. Funds lying dormant in state, federal and private retirement accounts and in group-life-insurance policies could total a staggering $1 trillion. Chew on that if, in your personal spending, you think little expenses...
...emphasized testing as a means of controlling STDs. Daniel M. Sussner '00, co-director of AIDS Education and Outreach (AEO), said UHS's efforts to promote testing are important because infections can remain dormant and students may not immediately realize they have contracted a disease...