1.   The contact becomes an act only if in some way or another it can be provided with a social meaning.

2.   Futurists see increased travel as a sign that face-to-face contact is becoming more important and the virtual office is making it easier to accomplish.

3.   However, those contacts are becoming rarer, officials conceded.

4.   Since American bombs began falling on Sunday, they said, the contacts have become more frequent and more serious.

5.   Cricketing contacts have become a casualty of political tensions between the two countries.

6.   Chinese medical experts have warned sexual contact will become the major channel for transmitting AIDS in China unless immediate action is taken by authorities, a report said Friday.