Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Archer, who is married and has two sons, maintained that he had never met Coghlan, much less had a relationship with her. "Foolishly, as I now realize, I allowed myself to fall into what I can only call a trap," he said in a statement. He admitted, however, that he had been telephoned by a woman calling herself Debbie, who later turned out to be Coghlan. She said a client of hers was telling people that she and Archer had "had an association." In later calls Coghlan said she was being hounded by reporters about the purported liaison...
...parents' determination to win the case resulted in the ruling that the plaintiffs are determined in their beliefs. This circularity does away with the all important relationship between a ruling and its context. It is the societal context, not the character of a court proceeding, that should be the measure of a case. But in this case the court merely judged how well the fundamentalists did on stage. The textbook case reduced the trial to a ritual. There is always an aspect of performance to courtroom proceedings, but in this extreme case the performance lost touch with the issues...
Hampers' campaign has also questioned Crane's relationship with food broker Gene Merkert, who employs him to perform what he says is a small amount of consulting work each year. She charges that Crane's friendship with the president of Merkert Enterprises has led to conflicts of interest. She has also said he works for the broker's firm during office time, at the Commonwealth's expense...
...Unless it is possible to know with absolute certainty that neither you nor your sexual partner is carrying the virus of AIDS, you must use protective behavior. Absolute certainty means not only that you and your partner have (had) a mutually faithful monogamous sexual relationship (for at least five years), but . . . that neither you nor your partner has used illegal intravenous drugs...
...leads to cancer or chronic disease, some sort of breakdown or weakness of the immune system plays a contributing role. For instance, organ-transplant patients whose immune systems have been suppressed by antirejection drugs have a greatly increased risk of developing virus-related malignancies. "There is a very intimate relationship between viruses and immunity," says Dr. Thomas Merigan of Stanford's school of medicine. "If our immunity is a little deficient for one reason or another, then we are more likely to have progressive disease...