Word: bonding
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...Phil’s freshman year, the boys in Pennypacker would bond over the photos of Radcliffe women in the school’s facebook. “We all looked through it exhaustively during freshman orientation, trying to figure out who’s hot and who’s not, and was there ever a chance we could meet any of them,” he says. Approaching one of the “hot” women seemed impossible. “Most of us didn’t really make an attempt to visit Radcliffe...
...cash flow, part of Social Security should also be privatized. The plan’s publicized, if vaguely defined, line is that anyone could divert a small part of his Social Security taxes to a private account invested in “a conservative mix of bond and stock funds.” Commentators say the plan is logically analogous to the government offering to loan you money against your future Social Security payments to invest in the market...
...cube. For their 1967 Villa Rosa project, the Viennese architects who call themselves Coop Himmelb(l)au proposed a dwelling made of attachable spherical modules. In the same era the British architect Graham Stevens produced the first inflatable structures, things so cool they found their way into early James Bond films...
...Songjiang New Town, an ad campaign advises that anyone fond of steeplechasing, Premier League soccer and the Beatles should consider joining the 8,000 fortunate folks who will ultimately live in this housing complex. Naturally, Thames Town will have a British exhibition hall where planners envision screening a James Bond film festival, and a church where, says one promotional poster, "you can adopt exotic marriage customs in which you exchange vows in front of a pastor...
...Investors' choices would be limited, much as they are under the Thrift Savings Plan now available to federal-government workers, who can invest in five broad, general funds: a large-cap stock fund, a small-cap stock fund, an international stock fund, a corporate-bond fund and a Treasury-bond fund. The government would also offer what is called a life-cycle fund, in which the mix of investments changes according to the investor's age. None of those options are particularly sexy, but because they are more diversified than individual stocks and bonds, they are less likely to suffer...