Word: cements
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...their high school courtship, Mr. Suskewicz deadpans that “we were the last people to know we were a couple.” It took a hike in the Catskills, where they kissed under a waterfall, for the two to cement the bond...
...SMITH, 87, co-founder of Lesney Products, maker of Matchbox cars; in north London. After World War II, he established a die-casting shop with a fellow veteran and sold his first toy, a small brass road roller, in 1952. The next year Lesney introduced its first Matchbox cars--cement mixers, dump trucks and road rollers--and a decade later was selling 50 million of them a year...
...Motorola's Burnes says the company went through four redesigns to develop a low-cost cell phone with battery life as long as 500 hours (for villagers without regular electricity) and an extra-loud volume for use in noisy markets. The poor need innovative models of financing too. When cement supplier Cemex, based in Monterrey, Mexico, was looking to kick-start sales after Mexico's mid-1990s financial crisis, it founded Patrimonio Hoy, a combination builder's "club" and financing plan that targets homeowners who make less than $5 a day. It recruited 510 promoters to persuade new customers...
...opportunity to dream: to imagine different scenarios for the future, to go to school, live in a new city, take a trip. But we need to close the gender gap. No longer separated by unique family roles, women and men have a common agenda: to find new purpose and cement relationships, to kick up and have...
...Gates is really after. Games just get you in the door. "You can't just sell it as a convergence device," Gates says. "You gotta get in there because certain members of the family [i.e., teenage boys] think it's a must-have type thing. But the way to cement it is as a family experience. And the way that it really makes sense for Microsoft, and we justify this sort of circuitous route that we went down, is because of how it fits in the living room...