Word: cements
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...every few years when they get haunted." Before he can explain, a static-coated voice issues from his handheld shortwave radio. Several kilometers away on a rain-slicked stretch of Bangkok's Boromratchanee Road, a black Toyota sedan has plowed into the back of a truck carrying sacks of cement. Anand, one of hundreds of Bangkok residents who voluntarily help mop up the city's nightly street carnage, jumps behind the wheel, while his 16-year-old co-worker Jitchana Srikachang climbs into the back. The pickup tears off toward the crash site...
...construction of the 720-km security barrier going up along the edge of the West Bank as part of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "separation plan." But their target is not Israel. The suit charges that officials in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (P.A.) have profited by importing cement using dubious import licenses and selling it to Israeli contractors building the wall. Try to imagine officials in the Kennedy Administration selling cement to East Berlin construction firms back in 1961 and you'll get an idea of why ordinary Palestinians are so furious about the allegations. Hassan Khreisheh, deputy...
...current scheme, Hatch said, is the disenfranchisement of blacks as a way for some to cement political power...
...several years ago, Loveman was a professor at Harvard Business School, specializing in the service economy. Now he's applying some of those theories about retail and customer loyalty to Harrah's Entertainment, which, after last week's $9.25 billion--including debt--deal for Caesars Entertainment is consummated, will cement its position as the world's biggest casino operator...
...opening scenes of the film, the three main characters—then 10 years old—are approached by a man claiming to be a police officer after they write their names in wet cement. The man, whose badge is fake and who is not wearing a uniform, insists on taking Dave Boyle (later played by Robbins) to his mother, shoving him in the back seat of his car. He then sexually molests the boy for four days, setting up the rest of the film...