Word: tasks
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...group of professors and administrators headed by Alan Fein, executive director of the Harvard AIDS Institute, and John Shattuck, vice president for government and community affairs, has served as a task force to rally opposition to the law. Fein said the group has contacted members of Congress, White House advisers, and representatives of both the State Department and the Justice Department, as well as Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan
...addition, the task force organized a mailcampaign that prompted thousands of scientists andpublic health experts to send postcards toCongress and the White House...
...narrator, daughter Nina, is a photographer. Hence the novel's title, which suggests the documentation of the Eberhardt chronicle from 1940 to 1985. Nina's task is to make sense out of the Randall effect. It emerges slowly in the weave of story lines about the lives and times of Nina's parents and siblings. Her climactic musing over the family photos arranged before her: "Which had the most power? Freud? That analytic version of my parents' life, which insisted that Randall -- and their misery -- had its source in my mother's wackiness and should be struggled against, fought, cured...
...Kham has been sleeping on the floor next to his brother's bed, waiting, watching and helping the nurses clean the wound twice a day. It is a task he dreads. Tor Kham and the nurse have to tie Rahmat Hussain's wrists to the bedpost with strips of gauze to keep him from reaching down while they remove the bandages. All the skin has been torn from Rahmat Hussain's inner thighs and groin to his stomach, and the pink, raw flesh forms a vast inverted horseshoe two inches deep -- as if he had mounted a burning saddle that...
...Gorbachev became party secretary in charge of agriculture in 1978, the friendship blossomed; whenever the two met, Yeltsin later related, "we would embrace warmly." In 1985 Gorbachev tapped him to be the clean broom needed to sweep out the corruption in the Moscow city party organization. Yeltsin handled the task with such verve, poking into the corners of public services and firing hacks by the hundreds, that he was appointed a nonvoting member of the party Politburo...