Word: cementation
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...disclosed earlier this month that the ex-President-for-Life had skimmed off $1 from the price of every sack of flour that was milled in Haiti. Annual average production amounted to 2.5 million sacks. The Duvalier family had also demanded a 50 cents "tithe" on every sack of cement that was sold. Managers of state monopolies in the sugar and cooking-oil industries have admitted to kicking back money over the years, resulting in higher prices for staple commodities in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country...
...mouths shut are dealt with in a style that has not changed since the '30s. He describes a friend's fate: "Tommy used a piano wire. Remo put up some fight. He kicked and swung . . . They buried him in the backyard at Robert's (restaurant), under a layer of cement right next to the boccie court. From then on, every time they played, Jimmy and Tommy used to say, 'Hi, Remo, how ya doing...
...Office of Management and Budget (which monitors agency regulations), the EPA's complicated phaseout will be analysed for a year before taking effect. Even then, it would not apply to any asbestos products already in place but would ban future sales of the material in roofing and flooring, tiles, cement and clothing. Other asbestos-related products would be labeled as such. Replacing asbestos with more expensive substitutes should cost consumers about $1.8 billion through the end of the century...
Backstrom has been riding the streets of Cambridge for seven years, frequenting the commercial skateboard park "Zero-gravity," a cement-lined basin, before it closed several years ago. Now, he practices at Turtle Park, a public facility on the Charles River with a paved surface just right for tricks...
tank: a shallow pool with a cement strip, slides and oarlocks set in the center. A tank allows a crew to practice as a unit in the winter...