Word: lend
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Certain jobs somehow lend themselves towards informal conversation. There's the hairdresser who blow-dries while discussing who's sleeping with whom, the bartender who consoles the heartbroken with a pint of Sammie, the J. Crew saleswoman who becomes your body-image consultants. Then, of course, there is the cabbie...
...main aspects of community is support. We are not a community if all we do is lend an appreciative ear to traditional songs or clap after cultural performances. We need to support each other in times of need, we need to support our extended communities and show that we are not a conglomerate of separate communities, but a consolidated community that will not be divided...
...Universities have power through their licensing agreement so they can lend a voice and lend their power to helping workers improve themselves," she says. "We'll be able to raise awareness in that sector to create a higher standard and use that as a model for the whole industry...
...That is an interesting fact. Imagine that!" For example, he introduces us to George Vancouver and his crew on the Discovery, as they attempt to map out the lands of the Inside Passage in 1792. What Raban tells us is interesting food for conversation, a good story to lend a backdrop to his itinerary. But the implications of these narratives never run quite as deep as the sea itself...
...course people are anal, antisocial, busy," he wrote in an e-mail message. "Harvard is a community essentially based on the individual and his or her attempt to move forward and succeed in getting what is desired.... It doesn't lend itself to generous human interaction...