Word: cementation
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...free his government of the strangling Red embrace. Prime Minister Rahman first declared a boycott of Chinese textiles, cement and chemicals, which have been flooding the Malayan market at below-cost prices. Last week he rammed through the Legislative Council a bill decreeing that any bank operating in Malaya that is owned by a foreign government or on behalf of that government or any of its agencies, must cease operation within three months. Of Kuala Lumpur's 15 banks-British as well as Malayan-the only one to answer to all the specifications is the Communist Bank of China...
...socialism at first transformed cattle-and sheep-growing Uruguay into a Latin American Utopia, Uruguayans into devoted followers of the Colorados. They got pensions (usually starting at 50) and the eight-hour day 20 years before the U.S. did. They got a vast network of government industries: insurance, rum, cement, petroleum refining and distribution, electricity. They got paid leave for expectant working mothers, state-paid funerals. They paid no income taxes; intricate exchange rates, in effect export duties on wool and beef, met the bills...
...physics course, taught by Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics and director of the Institute at Harvard, enables physics instructors to cement their knowledge of fundamentals as well as explore new fields...
Communists, and even odder that the West should insist on the Russian right to stay in Berlin. But in pressing for the kind of recognition-whether de facto or formal-that would only cement the division of Germany, the Russians are obviously seeking the status quo that Khrushchev told Walter Lippmann is the goal of Soviet diplomacy...
...People's Daily, "the head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head of a row of rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners' wives and teen-age children have been put to work running 40 new "industrial enterprises," including a cement factory. Logical next step at Yangchuan (and already in operation in some Red Chinese factories) is the "Saturday-night system," under which a married woman worker lives in a factory dormitory, is alone with her husband only on the odd Saturday night when she has the use of a dormitory...