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As was true before the crisis, no one is monitoring the almost limitless “virtual” market for derivatives, where money moves freely without official rules or
contact
with the real economy.
Transmission is believed to be airborne, through close and frequent
contact
with an infected, untreated person.
Specific estimates of casualties in the combat area were compiled by a UN team in Colombo from early 2009, based on regular radiophone
contact
with a handful of reliable sources – NGO, medical, and local UN Tamil staff – still on the ground.
This is because it ignores the dosage, failing to consider the likelihood of coming into
contact
with enough of the substance to cause actual harm.
This body evaluates the risks of substances like 2,4-D, considering real-world variables such as the amounts in soil and nearby water, exposure to animals passing through treated fields, and the potential for direct human
contact.
This is far different from the old liberal idea that trade and
contact
with totalitrian regimes begets democracy, sooner or later - an idea on display during President Clinton’s visit to China earlier this summer.
Even if China’s leadership wanted to, it could no longer clock its subjects from
contact
with Western goods, markets, ideas.
That led to further contact, at a lower level, and eventually to a request for technical assistance from the IMF.
We are more connected than at any point in human history, and more and more people come into
contact
with those who are different from them.
Whereas the US and the Soviet Union had limited trade and social contact, the US is China’s largest overseas market, welcomed and facilitated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, and opens its universities’ gates to 125,000 Chinese students each year.
But when lots of easy money pushed by a deep-pocketed government comes into
contact
with the profit motive of a sophisticated, competitive, and amoral financial sector, matters get taken far beyond the government’s intent.
For example, Article 4 of the Law on the Bank of Japan states that the bank “shall…always maintain close
contact
with the government and exchange views sufficiently, so that its currency and monetary control and the basic stance of the government’s economic policy shall be mutually compatible.”
So far, a relatively small number of human beings have died from the current strain of avian influenza, and it appears that they have all been in
contact
with infected birds.
No African man is supposed to be gay, and physical
contact
between men is presumed to be innocent.
As I watched, a European next to me explained that such dancing is accepted, so long as the
contact
between the men is left undefined.
As they frequent hospitals, and nursing homes, they come into
contact
with many health-care professionals, caregivers, and pieces of medical equipment, all of which could spread the fungus onto their skin or into their bodies.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other health agencies were working behind the scenes, painstakingly tracing anyone who may have come into
contact
with Duncan and quarantining those who might transmit the disease.
But, as modern game theory teaches, a one-time interaction is very different from ongoing
contact.
Tourism companies respond to such risks by minimizing
contact
with locals.
Establishing a
contact
group of Iraq’s neighbors to help set rules of the road for stabilization and containment will be an important step.
Many Bangladeshi intellectuals have seen the writing on the wall and fled the country, sacrificing daily
contact
with their rich cultural heritage for the sake of self-preservation.
But there was a catch: the data to which Modi’s followers gave the app access – including their photographs,
contact
lists, and GPS data, as well as their microphones and cameras – were shared with a US firm.
Syriza, for its part, maintains close
contact
with Germany’s Left Party (die Linke).
Although the schedule for my most recent trip was overwhelming, and offered little real
contact
with ordinary people, I could still grasp – from daily newspapers, TV programs, and conversations with friends – the profound economic, political, and moral crisis engulfing the country.
When this theory came into
contact
with reality, the result was sobering.
Likewise, other prisoners will be expelled to the West Bank, and will not come into
contact
with the Israeli population, neither in the settlements nor in Israel.
Mining and plantation agriculture were labor-intensive, but the population had collapsed precipitously upon
contact
with Europe, owing to some combination of war, disease, oppression, and the disruption of livelihoods.
In China, though clerics and soldiers blocked development for centuries by forbidding any external contact, the rise of an anticlerical regime finally opened the way for modernization.
No so Pakistan’s Islamists, however, whom Musharraf infuriated yet again last month, when he ordered his foreign minister to initiate the first official
contact
with Israel.
There is thus an urgent need for accessible, culturally sensitive health services that are able to involve community leaders in case management from the first
contact
to the final cure.
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