Word: cements
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...back of unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant III, point-blank out of the barrel of an officer sworn to serve and protect. Mr. Grant died instantly, prostrate in the universal “I Surrender” position, the officer’s knee smashing his neck into cement. Police supporters claim that Grant was harassing another train passenger. Supposedly the officer who fired the shot thought he was using a taser...
...cream plant, which had been owned by Alwadeya's family for 55 years, was far from the only factory destroyed in Israel's 22-day assault on the Palestinian enclave. All along Gaza's factory row - which produced everything from biscuits to cement to wooden furniture - hardly a single building remains standing. It's as if a tsunami of fire had roared through Gaza's industrial district, leaving in its wake a tide of twisted metal and smashed buildings. (See pictures of Gaza digging...
...tunnels to prevent Hamas from acquiring longer-range missiles - and has sought international cooperation to close the arms pipeline - but achieving that won't be easy. Israel's blockade has left Gaza's 1.5 million residents relying on the tunnels as their economic lifeline. Everything from medicine to cement to chocolate bars to lion cubs for the zoo has entered Gaza through hundreds of deep, sandy holes. Says Aymad, a tunnel digger who wears a Palestinian kaffiyeh wrapped around his head: "The Israelis destroyed dozens of tunnels, but many more are left undamaged, and as long as they keep...
...just market analysts who are hoping for a Nikkei rebound. Japan has a unique vulnerability to negative stock-price momentum. Cross-shareholdings, a mainstay of traditional Japanese business practice in which companies hold shares of other firms to cement friendly relationships, make stock-price losses a broadly shared pain. Not only are Japan's megabanks involved in cross-shareholding; auto and electronics manufacturers like Toyota, Nissan and Sharp are too. Companies and financial groups own about 20% of the shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange...
...Germany The Financial Crisis Claims A Victim Adolf Merckle, a 74-year-old billionaire whose business empire included some of Germany's best-known cement and pharmaceutical companies, threw himself in front of a train on Jan. 5--driven to suicide, his family said, by the global financial crisis. Merckle had lost hundreds of millions of euros in a bad bet on Volkswagen shares, endangering the future of his companies as a result. A handful of other business leaders have taken their own life amid the recent economic downturn, including Kirk Stephenson, the London-based CEO of Olivant, who died...