Word: cements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best policy alternative available to the U.S., but it has many liabilities. If it succeeds, its effect may be to keep Peking out for another year. Thus even some pro-American delegates suspect that they are being used to achieve this result and help Richard Nixon cement his relations with U.S. conservatives in advance of the 1972 election. If the American effort fails, the U.S. loses prestige. Yet the plan has a sort of perverse virtue in that it offers neither total victory nor total defeat to any of the principals involved. As Hudson Institute Futurologist Herman Kahn approvingly describes...
...high plain next to the ruins of Persepolis was a city that even Scheherazade could never have imagined: a 160-acre oasis studded with three huge royal "tents" and 59 lesser ones arranged in a star pattern. The tents were more or less permanent structures of synthetic fabric, with cement bases and wooden partitions; they were built to withstand fire, rot, and winds of up to 70 m.p.h. Decorated by Jansen of Paris, the firm that helped Jacqueline Kennedy redo the White House, the tents were completely air-conditioned and furnished with Baccarat crystal, Ceralene Limoges china and Porthault linens...
Construction costs on the uncompleted Undergraduate Science Center will rise approximately $20,000 over previous estimates according to Richard D. Leahy, Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Resources and Planning, as 407 gallons of epoxy replaced cement as joining between concrete planks and structural beams...
Leahy said the substitution of epoxy for cement grouting conforms to the new state law despite the fact that the Center is exempted from the new building code. Construction contracts were signed before the new law went into effect. "The epoxy was substituted to provide stiffening" against lateral strees, Leahy said...
...substitution of epoxy for cement grouting, although it will drive costs upward once again, was nonetheless intended as a further improvement in the Center's controversial construction. "It seemed a prudent thing to do," concluded Leahy...