Word: cementation
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...colored men's cage at the Hinds County Jail consists of a hundred-foot corridor with five eight-man cells on either side. Everything except the floor is made of unpainted blue steel--the floor is of ancient cracked cement. Each cell is eighteen feet wide by eleven feet deep with two barred and screened windows. There is a hole in the floor of each cell which serves as a toilet--it is flushed periodically by trusties who happen by. There is a needle-spray cold water shower in the large day room (in which the prisoners are locked from...
...Dividend" is the brain child of Eugenio Mendoza, 56, Venezuela's leading industrialist and philanthropist, who made a fortune in lumber, paper products, cement and construction (TIME, April 12). When Mendoza first suggested his Dividend idea several years ago, only a few businessmen warmed to it. But enthusiasm grew as far-leftist terrorists stepped up their attacks on business. "You either solve the problems of the masses," Mendoza warned, "or they solve them...
...have overtaken you in cement") and results in many an official claim that is outrageously exaggerated...
...Moslem and 90% illiterate-earn a meager $10 a year on the average, mainly by herding goats, sheep and camels over the parched grasslands of the interior. The country has no deep-water ports, no railroad, in a land half again the size of California. As if to cement its image of Biblical backwardness, Somalia brags of its exotic exports-frankincense and myrrh...
...bulge, window frames buckled and bricks began to peel off. So great was the danger that a barrier had to be erected around the whole building to protect passers-by from getting clobbered by falling bricks. When investigating engineers tore away a wall, they discovered gaping holes in the cement undersurface as well as other alarming examples of shoddy workmanship. The VA kept patching up the structure, finally decided to strip off every one of the hospital's 1,575,000 bricks, remove all 5,000 windows and window frames and replace them with new windows and a sheath...