Word: cemented
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German Professor Peter J. Burgard rose to read the sentiments of Physics Professor Eric Mazur (“mandatory Q evaluation is just going to serve as another excuse to postpone doing anything of substance and further cement our current approach to teaching”). Burgard said that he believed the Q is an unreliable metric of teacher performance...
...special two-euro adds to the array of coinage. But while it may quicken the pulse of coin collectors, it is unlikely to cement any collective European character, says Hugo Brady from the London-based Centre for European Reform think-tank. "The E.U. cannot manufacture a European identity through stunts," he says. "It's well intentioned, but I don't think it will resonate with the public at large. The E.U. institutions work best when they are efficient. When they try to get people to love them, the response is bemused befuddlement...
...parties striving to cement real grassroots political support that is loyal to the party rather than the candidate. It is having limited success. Analysts estimate that only one-third of PPP votes in the last election were for the party, which is why candidates such as Hussain can switch parties yet maintain their vote bank. This year, the death of Bhutto may be the catalyst that turns hundreds of local elections into a real national movement. In Lalian (which had a PPP representative who then switched over to Musharraf), it already seems to be working. "The politicians come here...
...poor woman haggle over a single bulb of garlic as though it were a Manhattan town house. Goats and camels, prized for their meat, were on many shopping lists. So were commercial goods. On the Gaza side, an unemployed mason with nine kids was hoisting bags of cement off an Egyptian flatbed truck. The Israelis had banned the import of cement, so all construction had stopped. But with the opening, the price of a sack of cement fell from $60 to $12, he told me, so he was happily back at work...
...resembled a horror movie, a blood-and-guts battle between a man risen from the dead and a candidate seemingly created in a lab. On Tuesday, a resurrected McCain slipped beyond the moneyed Michigan native's manicured grasp to win by five points in the Florida Republican primary and cement his status as the G.O.P. front-runner. Romney smiled through a thinly revised version of his ritual stump speech, as though the race hadn't fundamentally changed. But one could imagine what he might be thinking in the darker recesses of his mind...