Word: cements
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...Arroyo realizes she has to accommodate her most influential People Power partners?not the eponymous people, but the cabal of generals who hoisted her to power. She moved swiftly to cement their support, shrewdly naming former President Fidel V. Ramos Special Ambassador of Goodwill, an anemic-sounding title for what could be a very powerful role. (Ramos is a former armed forces chief of staff, and during his six-year term as president there were no coup attempts.) Then, on her first day in office, Arroyo gave some of the juiciest government jobs to military...
Five shooting bays allow officers to shoot at targets up to 50 feet away. A mock-up of a house stands in one corner, for hostage scenarios. The thick cement back wall of the range is pock-marked with bullet holes. At the wall's base, in piles of sand, lie hundreds of flattened bullets...
...castle above the charming boulevards around the Place de la Bastille, was mercifully unbuilt. But the long avenues were the same, and the bridges and the monuments, and then, as now, there were no skyscrapers in the center of Paris, no garish glass-and-steel confections, no piles of cement marring the long, twilit boulevards where the Parisians sat and sit still, sneering at the tourists and smoking their cool, carcinogenic cigarettes...
...hijack the legacy created by Teddy Roosevelt's use of similar executive orders at the turn of the century. Others accuse the President of last-gasp politicking in an attempt to boost his own profile on way or another - if the floundering Mideast peace talks won't give cement his legacy, critics gripe, perhaps he thinks this move will...
...point in the second period, Harvard led 3-0 and was looking to cement its place atop the ECAC standings...