Word: bonding
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...next year is to fall love,” Chase says. “The night of my 21st birthday this summer, I was trashed and completely in tears over the fact that I hadn’t yet met someone to love. I idealize my parents and the bond that they have, and all I want in my life is to have really meaningful relationships with my family...
Remember how Sept. 11 was supposed to mark the end of the culture wars? Americans were going to put aside their differences, acknowledge their common humanity and bond with one another in the shared pleasure of hunting down Osama bin Laden and blowing him to bits. For a month or two you could almost believe it. But with the war in Afghanistan winding down, it appears that the time has come for the American left and right to start gunning for each other again, at least in bookstores...
...bond between the boys was conceived on the Internet last November, when their moms, Heather Montgomery and Kerrie Westergren, visited a new website devoted to matching up single mothers to share homes. Co-abode co-abode.com invites single moms to share expenses, child rearing and their lives, and 1,500 of them have already posted their profiles on the site, looking for housemates. Other single-parenting websites also help parents network and build extended "families." It's all reminiscent of Kate & Allie, the 1980s sitcom about two single moms combining households. Only now Kate and Allie are more likely to have...
...said states are generally reluctant to give religious schools technological assistance, vouchers and tax-exempt bond financing...
Such ads have the ability to reach out to several generations. How do you appeal to kids who love teen pop as well as to adults who can't stand it? You show Britney in the '60s and the '00s and give the generations something to bond over. Says Jeff Mordos, who oversees the Pepsi account at BBDO New York: "The relationship [between] parents and kids today is much closer to friend-to-friend than in the past." And who wouldn't want a friend like Britney? --By Roy B. White