Word: cements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debating how to use the surplus could be like haggling over the division of water in a mirage. Yet even if the estimates are a bit optimistic, the nation will still be faced with the problem of having too much money. "If we use the surplus wisely, we could cement our wealth for another couple of decades," says Sinai, who is worried that big tax cuts now would be premature. "The task for our society," he adds, "is to make sure we don't blow...
...Arafat, too, is under immense pressure from within his own ranks to deliver on the promises of the peace process." Adding to Arafat's problems is that Palestinian concerns are of diminishing importance among Arab leaders, such as Syria's Hafez al-Assad, most of whom are eager to cement a long-term regional peace. That, and President Clinton?s coaxing, may eventually force Arafat to accept Barak?s terms. But it won?t placate the mounting impatience on the Palestinian streets...
...control, the less it looked as if he'd have any choice of walking away. Even if the expressions of reluctance had been designed to signal his distance from the process, the doubts now took on a life of their own. Yet each statement of uncertainty only tended to cement his position as far as everyone else was concerned. "The more he said it," said a G.O.P. consultant, "the more he doth protest [too much]. But the more attractive he became...
...P.L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines. Less public was the fact that some of the nation's vital naval and air bases had become smuggling hubs for everything from cigarettes to cement. The handsome profits--more than $10 billion a year--were used to improve the paltry living conditions of the rank and file...
...noticed, the students blocked off Appian Way, covered the walls of buildings with posters, wrote chalk messages across the cement on the street and staged the rally to the beat of drums...