1.   And the pursuit of affluence has become a larger social glue than any pursuit of excellence.

2.   Because it appeals to girls as well as boys, it provides some social glue, bringing kids together.

3.   City newspapers are like social glue.

4.   Ellis, the slang guru, contends that slang serves as social glue for subgroups in society, like college students.

5.   Nowhere is the shift more apparent than in the army, which has been a powerful social glue that helped hold the country together.

6.   So, too, is the social glue that brings together people of different backgrounds.

7.   The social glue in these communities has also weakened.

8.   The social glue, more often that not, is children.

9.   Yet social glue, surely, is made of better stuff than soap.