Word: cements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another thing is to treat developing nations as individuals, not as a bloc. And this would apply not only to the African nations but also to those in Latin America and in Eastern Europe as well. I'd like to try to cement, as much as I can, a good relationship on trade, cultural exchange, student exchange, tourism and foreign aid; using myself, the members of my Cabinet, maybe Governors on occasion, as special emissaries, and members of my own family, I hope to get what we call "world order" instead of power politics. World order means...
Around the corner from Mam Street is the one-room cement block community center with its two blue-curtained voting booths. Not a building anyone would notice, except that it was where Jimmy Carter cast his vote. The man seeking the presidency was not moved ahead of the others; the first man in line was his lifelong friend, Billy Wise, who was waiting when the doors opened...
McCune connected on a long, hard shot off a corner play in the second half to cement a 3-0 win for the Crimson. "We scored like crazy," Dupuis said yesterday. "We concentrated on playing as a team, because the judges look for players who mesh as a unit, and it worked just great...
...city of Urumchi has expanded from the mud-walled single-story Moslem quarters, where forage is stored on the roofs, to rows of new brick apartment buildings on the dry river beds outside the city. Camels still graze in sight of the new air terminal. Smoke from a cement plant floats across grazing lands where Kazakh cowboys pitch their tents of yak felt. (Visiting dignitaries like Schlesinger are served yak-butter tea and mare's fermented milk...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos spared no expense to pamper his influential guests. They were housed in 14 shiny new glass-and-cement hotels fitted out with such amenities as outdoor golf ranges and waterfalls in the lobbies. Meetings were held in the dazzling, just finished $125 million convention center. To keep the finance ministers and bankers amused between sessions, Marcos and his wife Imelda also brought in an exhibit of ancient Egyptian treasures, the Soviet Union's Bolshoi Ballet and, from the U.S., Pianist Van Cliburn and Metropolitan Opera Soprano Montserrat Caballe. Even the shanties in the city...