Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around for millenniums. Archaeologists have found evidence of head lice in the hair of ancient Egyptian mummies. And each year, 10 million to 12 million Americans receive unsolicited calls from the sesame seed-size insects, which set up shop in human scalps and lay eggs, or nits, that they cement to hair shafts. Head lice do not carry disease, but they are tenacious and a rather nasty sight. In the past few decades, the problem had been controlled with shampoos or soaps, many of them containing permethrin, the most widely used of the lice-killing chemicals called synthetic pyrethroids...
...this era of permanent campaigns, might seem premature for a Vice President, except that it has become the organizing principle of Clinton's status quo second term. Clinton's legacy is now predicated on electing Gore ("It's going to take another presidential election to set these ideas in cement," Clinton has told friends), which is why Gore's electability has become an issue so early in the game...
...outside the immediate control of the government. For example, his plan for a 4,000-student private school, Kingdom Academy, which will put emphasis on English and technical subjects, will give Saudi students a welcome alternative to government institutions that are strong on religious education. Another project will further cement Alwaleed's stature: the 30-story Kingdom Center, the tallest skyscraper in the Middle East, scheduled to open in downtown Riyadh in 2000. Associates say he is too busy making money to try jumping the queue of royal succession, but he hasn't ruled out becoming a political force...
...often this burden engulfs the player and afflicts his performance. Dave Brown floundered after succeeding Phil Simms as the New York Giants quarterback. Todd Collins is currently struggling to cement his starting job following Jim Kelly...
...lucky crash over the edge of the cement onto your palms, now blood-stained. You think? Yes, but only about your blood-stained palms and what a close call it was. You think that you would have screamed at the driver, but that you sort of appreciated the wake-up notice...