Word: cements
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...hole. With that incident in mind, U.S. officials last week cast a skeptical eye on new satellite images of the North Koreans hard at work on another big dig. Traffic around the mouth of a tunnel has intensified recently, and heavy equipment has been spotted hauling materials, possibly including cement, into the hole, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence. That could mean technicians are plugging the shaft to conduct an underground test. Or not. "Could the activity at the tunnel be consistent with a nuclear test?" asks the official. "Yes. Are there other potential explanations...
...force from 1958 to 1966 and the following year helped lead the military's rapid, pre-emptive victory in the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hard-liners and through his rapport with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...
...Israeli air force, a unit he built and commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...
...Ambassador and his wife, who are the official hosts of the royal couple, Charles and Diana went their separate ways. He went to the American Institute of Architects and she, accompanied by Barbara Bush, visit ed the Washington Home, a residence for the elderly and infirm. Inside the striking cement-and-glass A.I. A. headquarters, Charles heard about one of his pet subjects, the revitalization of urban areas. After the round-table discussion, the Prince strolled over to the Octagon House, built in 1801, to peruse the two-page Treaty of Ghent ("Quite a long one, too," he said smilingly...
Gates said that the department is “working hard to hire several new professors” that will cement the department’s prominence in African American studies and propel it to becoming the nation’s top center for African studies as well...