Word: connect
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...from Morocco, but the underlying sea bed—and possibly Spanish-Moroccan relations—will never be the same again. No, it isn’t a miscalculation of a Pangea Ultima configuration; the governments of Spain and Morocco just agreed to construct an underwater tunnel to connect their rail systems. But with their announcement came little fanfare...
...little more than a decade ago, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterand officially opened a similar experiment: The Chunnel, the underwater tunnel to connect England and France. The conclusions, however, speak to the failure of the results to satisfy the hypotheses. Eurotunnel, the group which manages and operates the tunnel predicted high passenger and freight traffic. Instead, low volumes of both passenger and freight traffic is trapping the company in quicksand—which Spain and Morocco did not heed as a cautionary tale...
...week, I joined some friends at a social event for young progressives. Our purpose for attending the event was more to provide a backdrop for a reunion—we had all attended the same summer program two years ago—than out of a particular desire to connect with others...
...Roger knows that, whatever else they may be, movies are stories people tell us; and a review is a conversation the critic has with both the filmmaker and the audience about the power and plausibility of the tale. No one has done as much as Roger to connect the creators of movies with their consumers. He has immense power, and he's used it for good, as an apostle of cinema. Reading his work, or listening to him parse the shots of some notable film, the movie lover is also engaged with an alert mind constantly discovering things - discovering them...
...secret that much of our recent success was a direct result of his recruiting and coaching efforts," Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said in a statement. "Paul meant so much to so many people. Whether they were fellow coaches, athletes, recruits or parents, he was able to connect with people in a way that was truly inspiring. We were just at NCAA Nationals last week, and it seemed that every coach stopped to talk to him. Paul had a profound effect on the sport of track and field, and it's hard to find the words right now to express...