Word: cementation
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Congressional passage, moreover, will not immediately cement an amendment into the Constitution. Three-fourths of the states also would have to ratify it; a mere 13 states could kill the amendment by voting no or declining to take it up. Many state officials are deeply suspicious that Congress would try to balance the federal budget by pushing off onto them the burden of financing needed but expensive spending programs. Congress has pledged to pass quickly a law prohibiting "unfunded mandates" -- that is, orders to the states to do this or that unaccompanied by any federal money to pay the cost...
...initials and hearts in the sidewalks, so carefully drawn by long-grown children, are cracking where tree roots have heaved the cement upwards. The wide porches of side-street houses are strewn with Christmas decorations. On Inman Street, decaying doors frame gleaming new doorknobs...
...otherwise tarted up before going in front of the judges. Says Buddy Holly's owner, Jan Smith of Wichita, Kansas, a longtime exhibitor of Great Danes (and herself the runner-up for Miss Congeniality in the 1965 Miss Arkansas pageant): "When the ears are too flat, we use cement to make them perky. We use chalk to color the legs, which is fine as long as you don't use copious amounts...
...anything, free trade with Indonesia will cement the position of the current government. Back when Communist annexation posed an ever present threat to friendly regimes, coddling a tyrant or two was acceptable and expected. But now, Indonesia--disregarding its role as a strategic center in the South China Sea--stands to gain by the creation of a new government...
...miscarries in an abandoned building. By Saturday Beavis is self-destructing again. "I did acid for the first time, plus a ton of orange juice and some vitamins because I really wanted to fry and have my eyes and hearing be more powerful. Then I huffed on rubber cement for three hours...