"Close connections between Stony Brook and local businesses benefit both sides," Dean Shamash said.
The US embassy reports there are "close connections between organised crime and the government of Uzbekistan".
In February I wrote about the close connections between the former Yugoslavia and Colonel Qaddafi.
It keeps close connections between people who may live far apart, but meet in Stevinson for the bullfight".
We are to understand that there are close connections between violence in the past and in the present.
Such structures can reveal close connections between seemingly disparate nodes (six degrees of separation, with a geek twist).
There are also close connections between automata theory and the logical and algebraic study of formal languages.
Would the close connections between the company and the Bush White House have made it politically impossible to do what the administration believed was the right thing?
At the new company, Mr. Silverman is putting into practice what he so often talked about at NBC: exceptionally close connections between content creators and corporate sponsors.
Mr Mofaz said the evidence "proved the close connections" between the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service, which runs the training complex, and terrorist groups.
There are close connections between logical atomism, which was perhaps the most metaphysical theory in contemporary analytic philosophy, and traditional empiricism.
