Word: cementation
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...Competition. In addition, Bhutto nationalized ten of his country's basic industries, including iron and steel, heavy engineering, automobile assembling, chemicals, cement and public utilities. "There was no competition in these industries," he declared. "They were fed on licenses. Favorites of the government and those who were privileged-these were the ones who got licenses." He insisted, however, that the government would not take over foreign investments, nor seize other industries, provided they were guiltless of financial irregularities...
...crowd that thronged Santiago's 100,000-seat National Stadium was Chile's new elite. There were rural campesinos carrying scythes, cement workers in blue hardhats, electricians in yellow ones, copper miners whose helmet lights glowed eerily in the dusk. For nearly two hours they listened as their tieless. coatless President, Salvador Allende Gossens, reeled off numbers-of farms expropriated, factories nationalized, peasants resettled on their own new lands. "The Chilean road toward socialism," he boomed, "has been realized with the least social cost of any other revolution in the world...
...device ever generated an aftershock greater than the explosion itself." Only an aftershock ten to 30 times as great as the original explosion, he said, could cause an earthquake. The minute Schlesinger got the word from Nixon, AEC workers were set to work shoveling sand, gravel and cement into the Amchitka shaft, in the "stemming" operation that is supposed to seal the explosion off from any possibility of blowout...
...high plain next to the ruins of Persepolis was a city that even Scheherazade could never have imagined: a 160-acre oasis studded with three huge royal "tents" and 59 lesser ones arranged in a star pattern. The tents were more or less permanent structures of synthetic fabric, with cement bases and wooden partitions; they were built to withstand fire, rot, and winds of up to 70 m.p.h. Decorated by Jansen of Paris, the firm that helped Jacqueline Kennedy redo the White House, the tents were completely air-conditioned and furnished with Baccarat crystal, Ceralene Limoges china and Porthault linens...
...this year, and then only increases of 4% plus cost of living rises in the first half of 1972. With sound management and reasonable luck, the government will avoid the dramas of last year, when strikes paralyzed Irish commercial banks for six months and closed the cement industry. C.M. Whitaker, head of the Central Bank and a leading economist, says: "The unions are now as keen as we are to lick inflation...