Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops -- down from 338,000 in 1990 -- will leave this month. Ordered by Major General Matvei Burlakov, commander of the Russian forces in Germany, "to take everything with them," the soldiers stripped their military installations of window frames, toilet fixtures, doorknobs and wiring. After all, Burlakov said, even a cement pole "can be traded in Russia for five pigs...
While sanctions are hurting the poor, who survive on beans and rice, shops in Port-au-Prince were well stocked. Cement supplies began to run out and so did Kellogg's Corn Flakes, but well-to-do supporters of the junta boasted they could outlast Clinton. Local supermarket owners said they had enough stock in warehouses for at least three months. "The prices are higher," says a Haitian executive, "but I can still get everything I need." (Last week, however, gasoline prices shot up abruptly...
Over the past two months, more and more large cement pipes have sprung up around the sides of the building. Recently, blockades and gravel were put infront of the castle, and a bulldozer was spotteddumping yet more gravel in the area yesterday...
...live. But none of that gave her a new life. Ted phoned repeatedly and stalked her. The restraining order seemed only to provoke his rage. On Memorial Day, he trailed her to a shopping-mall parking garage and looped a rope around her neck. He dragged her along the cement floor and growled, "If I can't have you, no one will." Bystanders watched in shock. But no one intervened...
...when she got to Washington, she made justone call to the Seminary-and was invited to thedance that would cement their relationship...