Word: cementation
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...time here is short, and sometimes our interest in other fields, limited, this ideal is impossible. However, this does not mean that there can be be no rapprochement between disciplines as disparate as Chemistry and VES (they both, after all, are housed in large and arguably very ugly cement buildings...
...while shooting Ah Kam. "It wasn't one of my difficult stunts," Yeoh says blithely, "just jumping off an 18-ft. wall. I landed on my head, and my neck went crack! Every muscle, every ligament in my body was screaming. At the hospital they put me in cement to keep me immobile." A month later, she was filming again...
...gambling are legal. But nine-year-old Jeremy Anderson is finding that other taboos are quite vigorously enforced. Last November, Jeremy and some friends were walking home from school when a rather Rockwellian construction worker asked if the children wanted to write their names in a just-poured cement sidewalk. "The man said I could, so I did," said Jeremy. He and his friends then wrote their names and made hand- and footprints. A few weeks later, the job's contractor contacted Jeremy's mother and told her she owed $11,000 because the company would have to redo...
...until Deng's passing, Jiang & Co. had been able to wrap themselves in the mantle of the great man's authority. Now Jiang must cement his own claim to it, and many wonder if he has the strength and charisma to sustain a cohesive leadership or the moral and political pre-eminence to dominate his rivals and his country. He has shown growing self-confidence and has managed to consolidate his base more successfully than anticipated; he is unlikely to be challenged right away as party or national boss...
...United States: the search for value that represents our inherited Puritan ethic coupled with the perennial desire to rise to the top and live the best life that we can. Translated into late twentieth century talk, that means buying fancy stuff on sale. Enter Price Club. In the cavernous, cement-floored Club, one can find all manner of goods known to humanity. Here, one buys in bulk; you can't get a box of tissues, but you can get 12 tissue boxes for the price of 8. If you have the storage space, it's a great deal...