Word: bonding
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After teaming up, CAL moved ahead with expansion plans for the library and pre-K, though voters had twice rejected bond issues to pay for them. So CAL set out to collect $600,000 through private donations. Thanks to gifts of $10 to $45,000, that goal has nearly been reached, and construction started in April. In a district where teachers' salaries begin at $24,000, virtually all chipped in, with an average contribution of $1,200. "We are a family here," explained the superintendent of schools, James Jess. "What makes us special is the caring and the informality...
...salarymen nuzzle Russian strippers and tea-haired twenty-somethings look to score designer drugs. The district is home to scores of dives, cafés, strip clubs, casinos and after-hours clubs catering to foreigners and to Japanese who like to hang out with them. The crowd - American bond-traders in Brooks Brothers suits, visiting models, second-rate rock stars, African bouncers, Israeli street vendors, drunken U.S. Marines, Pakistani pimps and assorted polyglot freaks - reinforced the notion of Roppongi as ground zero for Tokyo's gilded, fecund nightlife...
...Gozo Poderoso (BMG U.S. Latin). Aterciopelados (the name means the Velvety Ones and was borrowed from the writings of Simone de Beauvoir) formed in Bogota around 1990. Echeverri's parents were dentists; Buitrago's family ran a store in a market. The two dated, but soon their bond became a purely musical one. "That relationship is in the past," says Echeverri. "But we respect each other and we love each other...
...than anyone the unique and transforming power of great literature. Cliff sat in his study contemplating the books his company would eventually summarize, beginning with "Hamlet," his first project. (Not exactly an endeavor for the weak of heart: Can you, off the top of your head, discuss the emotional bond between Laertes and Ophelia? Cliff probably could...
...eyes, he knows she is sitting right there beside him. Spring love can be fleeting, as in the secret kiss in a darkened recess of Lowell’s courtyard, or bittersweet, as in the final shared moment before an inevitable summer split, or pure, as in the bond between two who have just traded a question, an answer and a ring...