Word: cementation
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...male lets out a cry that sounds like a rake being scraped over cement. He flaps his wings-which span 9 ft.-at a bird only another condor could love: an ungainly, 20-lb. female, with lugubrious black feathers, yellow eyes and a bald, orange head. She coyly nibbles at his neck, and off they fly, monogamous partners for life. They will produce a single 4½-in. egg every two years, and their ugly infant will be dependent upon them for a year-or until he is old enough to find carrion for himself...
...Government officials and businessmen alike hope that the new rules will end some nitpicking regulations that cannot be enforced anyway. For example, the Labor Department now requires that employers attempt to make sure that exactly 6.9% of workers on Government-financed construction jobs, including carpenters, laborers and cement finishers, be women. Says William Corrigan, president of E.W. Corrigan Construction Co. in Oak Brook, Ill.: "I don't know one female cement finisher...
Though PASOK calls for the state takeover of such key Greek business sectors as steelmaking, petrochemical fertilizers and the cement industry, Papandreou has refused to spell out precisely how this would occur or how businessmen would be compensated. As PASOK's election prospects have improved, Papandreou's position has moderated somewhat. He no longer urges outright withdrawal from NATO and the European Community or a shutdown of U.S. bases. Instead, he is calling for a referendum on Community membership and annual negotiations with the U.S. on the status of bases. Although a Socialist government in a country...
...Further depressing the market is the growing inventory of unsold completed homes, enough for 9.3 months of sales at the current pace. This is second only to the record backlog of 12.4 months in April 1980. Sluggish starts have idled construction crews, slowed demand for everything from roofing nails, cement and lumber to sashes, sills and sand, and generally contributed to the slowdown in the U.S. economy...
...same time being entirely removed from it. It just doesn't translate. Such "art" occupies a small and meaningless universe all its own, with an internal logic that, while it may look like ours, fundamentally has nothing to do with ours. Why, one wonders is Bladkov's Cement--the quintessential work of socialist realism (which contains such gastronomical metaphors as: "The sea was like boiling milk")--taken more seriously than a bunch of grabby kids having breakfast and scteasming "Leggo my Eggo" from the television? It's the same sort of fanciful persiflage...