Word: bonding
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...nearby villages. "It's a human challenge of massive scale," says Alain Guillen, vice president for social policies at Lafarge. Across Europe, corporations and individuals have stepped up to aid a stricken region where they have been working and playing for generations, and with which they feel a strong bond. They've pledged tens of millions of euros, millions of doses of drugs, and the people and equipment needed to reconstruct damaged infrastructure. On Dec. 30, Christopher Bland, chairman of the U.K. telecommunications group BT, began phoning top executives at Britain's 20 largest companies to urge them to donate...
...Pittsburgh that has truly captured the fans' imagination. The bond between the Steelers and their city runs deeper than an Allegheny coal seam. For one thing, the team provides a much needed distraction. "The city's in big trouble," says McGrath. "There is some high-tech stuff going on, but that doesn't help most people." Having the best record in football does. Roethlisberger jerseys are flying off the shelves; the Roethlisburger, a sub sandwich with sausage, chopped meat, eggs, cheese and fried onions, sells for $7, matching Ben's jersey number. And it's not just western Pennsylvanians...
...know whether this is a testimony to the sagaciousness of the Freshman Dean’s Office or to the unifying power of freshman year, of collective anxiety over Expos papers and finals and parties. But I know that I may never again share with anyone the sororial bond I share with them. We have applyled makeup in front of the same mirror, shared clothes, dryed each other’s tears, softened each others’ depressions, nestled together on futons. And there is some of this intimacy even with acquaintances, even with people living on your hall...
...prefect program’s directors of fun, this helped to show that the evening’s events were purely in the spirit of entertainment. “It’s a fun late-night activity that gives freshmen something to bond over as a class,” she said...
...when Bank One merged with JPMorgan Chase last year. In 2006 Dimon will become the merged firm's CEO, but he has already begun reshaping the institution in the trademark no-nonsense style he developed while at Citigroup. He has made key personnel changes in the investment-banking and bond areas, brought the bank's IT management in-house and initiated a risk-management review, while instilling his relentless bottom-line ethic throughout the business. It may take some time for Dimon to deliver the promised $3 billion of annual cost savings from the merger. But by melding...