Word: link
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...studies in the journal Neurology suggest a link between service in the 1991 Gulf War and an increased risk of contracting ALS, the deadly and incurable illness better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The studies used different methods but came to the same conclusion: veterans of the war are at least twice as likely as the rest of the population to develop the degenerative disease before age 45. One suspected culprit is exposure to poisonous sarin...
...pass the time, or maybe to break the competitive tension, they fall into the perennial Israeli custom of throwing out names and addresses to find a link. They find some: a barber, a cousin. I don’t take my eyes off the lines and the chief security attendant, except to watch the clock...
...arboretum is also a link in Frederick Law Olmsted’s “Emerald Necklace,” a string of public parks that wind their way around the city...
...role. Critics of the Bush Administration charge that the President and his top advisers waged a subtle campaign of insinuation in trying to make the case for war by frequently mentioning Sept. 11 and Saddam in the same breath--while carefully acknowledging, when pressed, that there was no specific link between the two. Critics had another reason to howl last week when Vice President Dick Cheney, appearing on Meet the Press, muddied the waters yet again. Cheney said that although two years ago he said there was no link between Saddam and Sept. 11, new evidence about Saddam's links...
...lawn, leaving just mud and weeds. My neighbor’s dogs, which number between three and five at any given time and are always of the larger variety, wander around the front yard, growling at passersby. The entire mess is barely contained by an old chain-link fence, over which grow ivy and morning glory so thick that the wires are no longer visible. The ivy hangs in a curtain around her porch and climbs up to the top of the house, twining itself around her chimney. Her walls are crumbling under the ivy’s grasp...