Word: bond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bond between Christina V. Farag '01 and Damaris Hernandez '01 didn't form instantly, but once it did, it stuck fast. When they met in the ninth grade, Christina confesses, "I didn't like her. I thought, 'Who is this girl wearing a little hoochie shirt?'" They burst into a contagious giggle, and Damaris clarifies, "I have a round face, so she thought I was fat. I was wearing an outfit that a thin girl should wear...
...bond between Christina V. Farag `01 and Damaris Hernandez `01 didn't form instantly, but once it did, it stuck fast. When they met in the ninth grade, Christina confesses, "I didn't like her. I thought, `Who is this girl wearing a little hoochie shirt?'" They burst into a contagious giggle, and Damaris clarifies, "I have a round face, so she thought I was fat. I was wearing an outfit that a thin girl should wear...
...Whenever there was a problem, we'd look at ourselves," says Teresa Dovey. "We'd say, `They are reacting to what's going on around them.' True enough, there'd be something wrong in our lives." This introspection and focus on the family has forged an especially tight bond between Lindi, Ceridwen and their parents despite the distance between them...
DIED. CURTIS CARLSON, 84, jaunty self-made billionaire; in St. Louis Park, Minn. During the Depression, Carlson borrowed $55 from his landlord to jumpstart his trading-stamp company, Gold Bond. That business, which earned him his first million by age 39, turned into Carlson Cos., parent to ventures such as TGI Friday's and Radisson Hotels...
...residents became as diverse as the bounty of their vegetable patches. A bond salesman who had never gardened before started raising onions, broccoli, cauliflower, parsley, snow peas, chard and kale. Near him is a physics professor who once specialized in nuclear energy and now prefers the solar kind. There are schoolteachers and state-government employees (Sacramento is 15 miles away), young couples and retirees. Although the houses grew as large as 3,000 sq. ft., Corbett built several 1,000-sq.-ft. units for low-income residents...