Word: connect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EASY TO CONNECT people to the Panda or the American Eagle. The important thing is that we expand our circle of awareness and affection and love for the rest of organisms. We're beginning to have some affection for and concern for the fate of frog species and salamander species. In Europe already, the public is increasingly concerned about butterflies, beetles and the like. I don't mean to say that one will ever consider the giant American Burying beetle, which lives on the decaying corpses of rats and mice, as a cuddly organism like the panda. Nonetheless, there...
...committee recommended that the Facultycomplete the network to connect students, facultyand administrators with each other and networksaround the globe...
...remains of 51 victims on the ground -- many others were incinerated and will never be found -- investigators searched for an explanation. El Al says an engine fire on the same plane last July was unrelated to the disaster. But recurring problems with microscopic cracks on the "fuse pins" that connect engines to the wings of Boeing jumbo jets are a possible culprit. As yet, there is no evidence linking fuse pins and the crash. But a similar crash in China last December led to a Federal Aviation Administration directive requiring fuse-pin inspection on early-model 747s. (See related story...
Adolescents, as everyone in the movie business knows, are a market, not an audience. You do anything you can to separate them from their allowances -- pimple-brained comedies, incoherent action films, imbecilic slasher flicks -- but you do nothing to connect them with the realities of the often desperate passage they are attempting to navigate...
...Clinton speech was practically diagrammed. As his own spin doctors told the press, the idea was to connect biography with policy. Hence concern for Mom produces -- presto! -- national health care. Granddad's example triggers commitment to civil rights. Does anyone really believe that "if you want to know why I care so much about our children and our future, it all started with Hillary...