Word: cementing
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...current scheme, Hatch said, is the disenfranchisement of blacks as a way for some to cement political power...
...several years ago, Loveman was a professor at Harvard Business School, specializing in the service economy. Now he's applying some of those theories about retail and customer loyalty to Harrah's Entertainment, which, after last week's $9.25 billion--including debt--deal for Caesars Entertainment is consummated, will cement its position as the world's biggest casino operator...
...opening scenes of the film, the three main characters—then 10 years old—are approached by a man claiming to be a police officer after they write their names in wet cement. The man, whose badge is fake and who is not wearing a uniform, insists on taking Dave Boyle (later played by Robbins) to his mother, shoving him in the back seat of his car. He then sexually molests the boy for four days, setting up the rest of the film...
...energy was funneled to foreign and joint-venture firms to keep their assembly lines humming. The electricity crunch hit China's fastest-developing eastern and southern regions the hardest, as overtaxed power plants simply couldn't keep up with the pressure from energy-intensive industries such as steel and cement. As a result, a province like Zhejiang saw its 2003 economic growth rate come in 1% lower than expected...
...asserting too much independence from the West. Or it was the CIA because, well, because they're the CIA. One former government official even insisted to Time that Djindjic ordered a fake hit on himself, so that in the aftermath he could impose a state of emergency and cement his hold on power. According to this theory, he died when the original plot to kill only his bodyguard was hijacked by foreign agents. For six months, the trial of 13 alleged conspirators accused of killing the pro-reform Prime Minister has served mainly to stoke the rumor mill. The testimony...