Word: cementation
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...though Harvard was not necessarily winning each race, the Crimson took several spots in the top five on multiple occasions to cement the victory...
...portrayed himself as the innocent victim of dark forces. He had long maintained that other officials in Heilongjiang had set him up after he discovered their connection to the bomb-shelter debacle. In a 34-page letter to the court, he described being chained to a hook on the cement floor of a prison basement as interrogators beat him into confessing. "If you die here," he quoted one saying, "your family won't even get your ashes." The official who oversaw the investigation, he went on, was one of those he had discovered taking bribes...
...Otner said she will continue to collect names of interested students that have responded to e-mails she sent out over house open lists last week, as well as cement a faculty sponsor...
...Just how dangerous might be revealed this week during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's first official trip to the U.S. Wen's visit was meant to cement the warming ties between the two countries, with trade the only real point of contention. Now, laments a senior U.S. State Department official, "the Taiwan issue is going to be high on the agenda." Wen is likely to push U.S. President George W. Bush's Administration to make clear its opposition to Taiwan's independence. That's something Washington has so far refused to do, maintaining instead that it "does not support" independence...
Last week, opponents of gay marriage reintroduced the Federal Marriage Amendment into both houses of Congress. The amendment would cement the second-class status of homosexuals in the U.S. Constitution, our fundamental articulation of American values. The amendment reads, “Marriage in the United States shall consist of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or [sic] the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups...