Word: links
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...plan will link the screening of sexually transmitted diseases with HIV counseling and testing for the first time in Puerto Rico, as well as provide drug treatment...
What is the link with Destiny? Disillusioned church members assert that the book was published in order to obtain a bequest of $90 million from the Knapp family, whose fortune was based on California agriculture, real estate and oil. The writer's father Ira was a member of Eddy's inner circle, and the book represents the author's reminiscences and beliefs concerning the founder. Those beliefs were rejected by the ruling board in 1948, shortly after the volume first appeared. Under the terms of the bequest, the Knapp fortune was destined to go to Stanford University...
...organizations had a strong human link as well, grounded in the friendship between B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi and Bank of America's A.W. (Tom) Clausen, who was chairman during 1970-81 and 1986-90. When regulators seized B.C.C.I. offices around the world last July, three of the seven directors on its board were former high-ranking Bank of America executives. On that same day, the California bank disclosed that it still had $177.4 million of B.C.C.I.'s money in its accounts...
Ironically, Columbus drew much of his stature from one such national mind- change. Prior to the War of 1812, he did not figure large in the U.S. imagination. But after that conflict, American patriots felt an urgent need to link the national cause with non-British heroes: the New World needed new ancestors. Washington Irving's 1828 A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus glorified a commanding character with an Italian name and sailing under a Spanish flag who nonetheless displayed virtues and characteristics that U.S. citizens, most of them from northern Europe, could admire. Thus...
...solve its problems and restore its fortunes, it will be tempting for some to say, 'Well, let's return to our own backyard, withdraw our forces from Europe and elsewhere, and take care of ourselves.' That would be a nightmare for Europe. It's why we have to link the U.S. to Europe...