Word: connect
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...absorbed almost 40 percent of Brazil's budget, and every country was caught in the same trap. Railroads formed another decisive part of the cage of dependency ... Most of the loans were for financing railroads to bring minerals and foodstuffs to export terminals. The tracks were laid not to connect internal areas one another, but to connect production centers with ports ... thus railroads, so often hailed as forerunners of progress, were an impediment to the formation and development of an internal market...
...store owner to work initially with technology. He was on the design team for Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked with everything from application software and CPU to hardware. But his stint in the world of technology didn’t prove entirely satisfying for Chen, who yearned to connect with people...
...Internet has helped facilitate communication—but communication with whom? While we have been able to connect more easily with, say, Christina Aguilera or total strangers from the other side of the globe we meet on MySpace or in chat rooms, we have been separated from the people that matter. According to a Stanford study, those who use the Internet frequently—an estimated 31 percent of the U.S. population—spend an average of 70 minutes fewer per day interacting with family than those who use the Internet less frequently...
...Ward was appointed to the Council in a special recount, becoming the nine-person body’s third black member.Trained as a guidance counselor and having more than a decade of involvement in Cambridge Youth Soccer under his belt, Ward considers his ability to connect with people one of his primary assets. But because he joined the Council only eight months before the upcoming November election, Ward has yet to simultaneously catch up on City governance and reignite his once-failed campaign.In the month since he was sworn in, Ward has sponsored two resolutions and been appointed chairman...
...While there is no doubt that this is a challenging task, encouraging trends have emerged in recent years. Just one day after Obama’s speech, the governors of eight Midwestern states sent the president a letter urging him to support a new proposed plan that would connect Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Madison, Wisconsin with a network of fast passenger trains. And, while, Amtrak’s trans-continental lines may be the object of ridicule, ridership on the Acela line has grown rapidly as fuel prices have made air and car travel less attractive to business commuters...