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Word: contact (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solved. But I told him that I thought the meeting made good sense. I told him that I never had favored this kind of meeting before but that I had changed my mind. I am going to keep the personal part of this going. I'll find ways to contact him in a quiet fashion. I can write. I can call now. I'm not going to become a pen pal, but we can communicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Game of One-on-One | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...quickly became the academic vice rector and was our main contact there when we reopened the program in 1984," says Ned D. Strong, a director of LASPAU. "He was [also] the contact with all academic exchange with the embassy...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Slain Priests Had Ties to Harvard | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

After observing Bok for four years, I see him as a symbol of the narrow-minded bureaucracy that pervades Harvard. His public persona is a smokescreen, given to dazzling us with occasional appearances on a one-to-one level but eschewing any systematic contact with undergraduates...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: No Bok Payments | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

...they achieve an emotional bond -- a standard for hospital melodrama -- but in reveries rather than everyday contact. The patient becomes a stand-in for the nurse's dead mother; the nurse is transformed into the patient's long-lost sister, then an estranged daughter. The little dramas of hospital routine thus become freighted with the burdens of decades. Trivial exchanges achieve the dimensions of catharsis. Puig deftly interweaves other themes, including the oppression of all women under Latin machismo and the extent to which South Americans may still defensively see theirs as a colonial culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dreamscapes | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...Ever since the first large meeting of over 100 people, the committee seems to have, through no readily discernable fault of its own, lost contact with those whom it pretends to represent," said Bradley A. Evans '93, a council member who said he supports the status quo. "This leaves us with randomization without representation...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: First-Years Divided On Lottery Compromise | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

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