Word: cement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mabery and the Crimson would all but cement a first-over Ivy tide for the young Harvard squad. The only undefended team left in the league (at 3-0), the Crimson would only need one victory in its last two Ivy games--which come against lowly Brown and Yale--to garner the title and the accompanying NCAA tourney...
...sugar, wheat and milk, and to negotiate $685 million in loans from the International Monetary Fund. He raised taxes and cut the amount available in this year's budget for spending in state-controlled industries and public works. Not least he opened up the state-controlled banking, insurance, cement and beer industries to private investment, a step that Portugal's center-right parties have been urging for years...
Violence broke out only after dark, while Aquino's body was being laid into a temporary cement sepulcher, where it will remain until members of his family can agree on a final resting place. Before masons had cemented the vault closed, several thousand youths returned to the center of Manila, within a block of Malacanang, beating pots and pans and shouting, "Laban!" (fight). They were met by squads of police toting guns and riot shields. As the youths threw rocks and small homemade grenades, the police waded in, eventually dispersing the demonstrators by shooting into...
...have approved the breaking up of the empire he built. Says Executive Vice President Neil Call: "He would be concerned about how fast we're doing it." Bluhdorn sensed that the conglomerate had got out of control and sold Brown, a paper-products firm, insurer Providence Capitol and cement producer Marquette. Davis completed the sale of Consolidated Cigar for $120 million...
...computer enthusiasts in and around Milwaukee who call themselves "the 414s" after that city's telephone area code. Using home computers connected to ordinary telephone lines, they had been breaking into computers across the U.S. and Canada, including one at a bank in Los Angeles, another at a cement company in Montreal and, ominously, an unclassified computer at a nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos...