Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sugar -- and are profiting handsomely. The Brandts control the market in flour, which shot up from $43 to $50 a sack, and have a corner on the country's chicken industry. The Mevs family continues to add on to a fuel depot capable of holding 50 million gal. Their cement business is booming as black-market millionaires build new homes. The Madsens are doing big business in humanitarian food at their shipping terminal, and they own the country's main beer factory. To exploit lucrative foreign-exchange deals, two of the capital's leading families -- the Acras, who come from...
...Disappearance was so thoroughly orchestrated that fresh brick greeted early morning shoppers and the only sign of the sign was three orange cones to warn passersby of wet cement...
...play in the cement things," saysChris P. Glew...
What in wartime might risk thousands of lives, in peace-time is really quite innocuous; the assurances potential allies receive from spies' information is far better cement for budding relationships than blind trust alone. The Senators have it exactly backwards...
...occupied territory will remain in the hands of those who occupied it by force. But now the newly marked out borders will be watched over carefully and responsibly by the blue helmets. Slowly but surely, the demarcation lines will dissolve into a border line between different "states." This will cement what has always been the ultimate goal of Milosevic and Karadzic. Those interested in knowing what this really means can go and take a look at the place where the Berlin Wall was or the place where a similar wall stretches across Nicosia in Cyprus...