Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dede's ex-colleagues the small-time hoods chased up and down the Bellevile streets by the police, provide economic relief particularly one Mohammad Djerbi: "I don't deal. These are my life savings. Don't touch me-I'm a tourista. This cocaine? It's not mine. I found it-The money's to buy a washing machine for my mother." etc...etc...ad nauseum...
Suleiman at 44 the oldest of this group serves as the department's unofficial liaison with France. "She is our link to the contemporary French literary scene," says Brody, adding. "She is really up to date and in touch with what is going on there...
Though Harvard undergraduates are not frequent patrons of most of these collections, rare book aficionados can find out about Harvard's assemblage through catalogues circulated around the world. However, most do not have regular circulation. Only some professors and specialists in particular fields can touch these treasures...
Companies often select their best and brightest employees for teleworking because those workers require little super vision. Even so, the designated home workers may feel out of touch with the office and fear the possibility of being passed over for promotion because they are out of sight. Says Nilles: "You need good management to make the programs work...
Entre Nous looks at its characters with an acute bifocal vision. The women are modern feminist figures marooned in the stay-at-home '50s; the men's attitudes, sympathetic at the time, have a touch of the Neanderthal about them today...