Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, COWPS will now require all companies with annual sales of more than $250 million, including those that produce prescription drugs, cement, and electric motors, to file quarterly reports on price actions, including any price changes being considered for the future. Bosworth frankly admits that there has been plenty of mismanagement of the price standards. Yet he insists: "The answer is not to abandon the program. We've lost a lot of time, but we've got to get a better flow of information...
...never made those figures public because we don't want to cement in anyone's mind that he or she will be living in an unpopular House," Dingman said...
...fundamental thrust of U.S. foreign policy for the last ten years has been to cement an anti-Soviet alliance with China and Japan. The U.S. sees China as an ace in its hand against the Soviet Union and China's invasion of Vietnam is the first military expression of this diplomacy...
...China Syndrome is not a disaster film in the style of The Towering Inferno nor Earthquake--it doesn't even rely on ritual seduction scenes to cement the plot. Lemmon and Fonda portray characters who are average people, holding perhaps better-than-average jobs, who act heroically when the circumstances demand it. Fonda is very believable as a success-oriented member of the "Me Generation," at first frustrated far more by her boss's fluffy conception of her than by his cover-up of her nuclear accident story. "I've got a pretty good job, and I fully intend...
...talent of next year's freshman class is critical, but may unfortunately cement the realization that Harvard lost more than a freshman hockey coach when Tim Taylor left for Yale three years...