Word: cements
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...world, while providing an opportunity to wear red. Dave shook his head in disagreement. He had other ideas: he was going to cook me a romantic dinner. There would be candles and three fabulous courses, complete with the scary exotic vegetables that he loves. (Radicchio, anyone?) To cement his argument, Dave declared that Valentine’s Day parties are for single people—that’s the point. And we’re not single...
...elementary school, where small hands spend the evening hours of the 13th filling out 18-24 tacky cartoon cards with individualized verses of poetry, such as: “Happy V-Day. Sam.” (It makes you want to go look for the U-boats.) To cement this genuine exchange of emotion, Sam has to pass out one card to everyone in his class, even the kids he doesn’t like...
Michael Hilb, a project manager at Holcim—a multinational cement corporation—will focus on corporate citizenship, and the relations international businesses build on both local and corporate levels...
...3a.m.. I have also “studied” in the rooms of everyone I know, in front of numerous movies, at every cafe in Cambridge and with many drinks in my hand. Last semester I relented and went to Cabot Library, which is such an ugly cement hole that there is nothing to do except study. (There, I sunk to new a low and read a book about the mating patterns of the Giant Albatross...
...Orthodox vs. secularists; the poorer Sephardic Jews who emigrated to Israel from Arab countries vs. the Ashkenazi Jewish elite with its cultural and political roots in Europe, with the almost 1 million Russian immigrants of varying degrees of Jewishness tilting the balance hither and thither - external threats create the cement that binds it together...