Word: cements
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...Washington yesterday with not much to show but hope and determination to persuade the U.N. Security Council to approve a U.S.-British resolution laying out a comprehensive political and security plan between Israel and Lebanon, including Lebanon's Hizballah militants. Rice's plans to cement at least informal Israeli and Lebanese commitments to that plan had been sidetracked the day before by the global uproar over an Israeli bombardment that had gone awry, collapsing a residence in the south Lebanon town of Qana, crushing and suffocating 54 people, mostly women and children...
...rigid and huddled up against a wall," says Ghazi Idibi, 32, a neighbour of Abbas Hashem, whose three-story unfinished home on the outskirts of Qana was destroyed early Sunday morning by two aerial bombs dropped by an Israeli jet. The house, a typical simple Lebanese structure of reinforced cement and cinder blocks, had provided shelter for 10 days to 53 people, mainly women and small children, drawn from the extended Hashem and Shalhoub families. Only eight people survived the air strike, the rest buried beneath rubble and dirt, and suffocating to death, according to the Lebanese Red Cross...
...been attempting to persuade Ellison to put the gift on paper for more than a year. The University had been in talks with Ellison even before Summers assumed the presidency in 2001, the sources said, but it was not until Summers came into office that donation plans began to cement...
...have turned to for radical thinking, or owning anything abroad. The group's founder, J.N. Tata, was a nationalist driven by the idea of a strong, self-reliant India. He gave the country its first steel plant, first hydroelectric plant, first textile mill, first shipping line, first cement factory, first science university, even its first world-class hotel. His successors among them J.R.D. Tata, India's first pilot created the first airline, first motor company, first bank and first chemical plant...
...marked contrast to his brother, Jeb is considered a workaholic policy wonk (although he's been known to relax his patrician demeanor with a glass of Wild Turkey and Motown CDs), and he practically oozes public service vigor, part of what Bush-watchers call the family's drive to cement its place as the GOP's answer to the Kennedy dynasty. "Whether they agree with his policies or not," says political consultant and former Jeb spokesman Cory Tilley, "taxpayers still admire him because they know they're getting their money's worth from...