Word: reconnections
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...Homeland Security,” however, has been so stigmatized by abuses at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and by invasive customs procedures at American ports of entry that a change in terminology would be a significant symbol of America’s desire to reconnect with the world. And history shows precedence for such a symbolic action: it is not for nothing that on the eve of the Cold War, with America seeking to present a non-aggressive face to the world, the “Department of War” became the “Department...
...design aims to transform the Shanghai Bund into a more accessible space to “reconnect the city fabric with the waterfront,” said project director Liang Zhao...
...population dead from a sudden attack of Global Freezing, Dennis Quaid decides he has to go on an Iditarod race from Washington, D.C., to the 42nd Street Library in New York to save his stranded son, Jake Gyllenhaal. Tom Cruise went on a similar suicide mission to reconnect with his family in Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Here in Cloverfield Rob decides he absolutely must save Beth, trapped in her midtown highrise, even though she's a four-mile trudge away, the rest of the town is being smashed, trashed or eaten alive by crazy creatures, they have...
...meeting of business leaders, he used a vulgar expression to describe his opponents - then he repeated the same word to thousands at a basketball arena in Naples. Instead of losing by 10 percentage points, he lost by a few thousand votes. Now he must again find a way to reconnect with the People beyond naming a party after them...
...Robert T. Shaunessy ’59, Harvard-Yale is a chance to reconnect with the college sport he loves. Shaunessy, the captain of the 1958 football team, has gone to every game in recent memory, and tailgated for each one. He has his routine down pat; burgers with old friends before the game, and then he’s packed up by 11:50 a.m., ready to catch the kickoff. “I just love football,” he said, as he prepared to head into the Yale Bowl. But as he looked across muddy fields...