Word: infectives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pieroth's first priority will be to eliminate the absurdities that now infect the system. Some 85% of East Germany's economy is controlled by 220 unwieldy state Kombinate (conglomerates), whose production has been dictated by ill-conceived five-year plans rather than by supply and demand. Heavy- industry manufacturers, for instance, have had to shoehorn consumer goods into their production lines, so that TuR, East Germany's largest producer of electrical transformers, also makes appliances for melting cheese at home...
...sneezing and coughing or through contact with mucus on hands or objects. Transmission is faster in places with poor ventilation, such as rooms with closed windows, crowded classrooms, nursing homes and public transportation systems. On planes, where the air is continuously recirculated, just one flu- ridden passenger can infect all the rest...