Word: taken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...implement the testing of blood at a time when it was already suspected to be a medium of transmission for the AIDS virus. Although the government was warned in March 1985 that almost all of the National Center for Blood Transfusion's stock was HIV-tainted, no action was taken for several months. The delay was responsible for the infection of some 4,400 individuals, about 40 percent of whom have since died of AIDS...
...contrast to the Indian focus of the first novel,Afternoon Raagis a collection of suspiciously autobiographical sketches taken from student life at Oxford. Whatever plot might have strung the biographical snippets of this together has been lost under chapter upon chapter of description...
...Most math majors get a sense about which classes to take from talking with their peers. I have chosen my classes based on discussion with friends who have taken the courses and the professors teaching the courses," said Samit Dasgupta, co-president of the Math Club...
...important to get a peer's perspective, because a professor's or official adviser's perceptions of a particular class are often very different from those of a student who has taken the class," he added...
...think it's always nice to have extra advice. Both types of counseling, from Faculty members and peers, provide different things," she said. "Peers can afford perspective since they've taken the course. Faculty members provide the structure and the deeper knowledge of the system that the peers don't provide. Both are integral...