Word: bonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many long-distance relationships survive, because this kind of bond is hard to maintain across distance. Phone calls and e-mail, without the nuances of facial expressions or tone of voice, can easily lead to misunderstandings that are easy to cope with in person but take time--and money--when you're far away. Just to reassure Lezama, Mike and I got along quite well, thank you, when he was here last spring. And I'd take any humdrum dispute from those four months over a two-hour, ten-dollar phone call in which we succeed in sorting out some...
...Morris turned Clinton on to the power of polling. According to a Clinton biography by David Maraniss of the Washington Post, Clinton and Morris had a falling out after that election, reconciled briefly in 1980 (even though Clinton lost his re-election bid) and then formed an unshakable bond in 1982, when Morris helped Clinton reinvent himself politically and develop the "permanent campaign" strategy that Clinton still employs. Possibly apocryphal stories abound about the two men staying up all night writing campaign commercials and of Clinton decking Morris over a disagreement about Clinton's treatment of his chief of staff...
...come from such different backgrounds, but we have a common bond in that we love the music and we love dancing," he says. "This is my first opportunity to do something like this. I had no previous experience in dance, and now [after dancing with the company for two years] I'm directing...
...team athlete or actor knows, working together towards a single goal creates a very peculiar kind of bond, one not easily broken. While Ramos says shared ethnicity certainly reinforces this connection, he says the time spent rehearsing for performances makes his group especially tight-knit...
...really bond with these people," saidChristofferson. "It was a lot of fun anddefinitely worth...