Word: cements
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...call them "our Arabs," the 1 million Arab citizens of Israel consider themselves Palestinians. The call to defend al-Aqsa brought them out in the thousands. And it highlighted the political problems Barak still faces at home. Without the help of Israeli Arabs, Barak may not be able to cement his power--and Arafat may find himself facing a hard-line Israeli government. U.S. and Israeli officials often talk about how difficult it is to understand what Arafat wants. But it is hard to imagine he intended for the battle to lead to the political deliverance of the group least...
...Milosevic unwittingly set his fate in motion last summer when he tampered with the constitution and called an election nine months early to buff up his democratic veneer. Voters didn't like that, but when Serbs went to the polls Sept. 24, even they suspected the country would cement his presidency in place for another four years. And when the opposition declared a runaway victory on Sept. 25, claiming Kostunica had got 52.4%, compared with Milosevic's 38%, the Serb autocrat still looked strong, albeit shaken. He set about rectifying the decision in his usual way, urging the cronies...
...events of the past 12 days have highlighted what may be fatal flaws in the peace process, which may leave President Clinton spending his final months in office trying to avert a war rather than cement the final peace agreement for which he'd pressed so hard at Camp David. Indeed, the high-stakes battle for control over Jerusalem that began at Camp David when the sticking point became whether Israelis or Palestinians would have sovereignty in those parts of the city captured by Israel in 1967 has sparked a region-wide fire that could torch much of the progress...
There was very little damage to objects in the room, according to University spokesperson Doug L. Gavel, who said that only one chair and one lamp were broken by the failing cement...
This solution should satisfy both sides of the Bobby Knight debate. For his supporters, Knight receives a chance to a bring an athletically prestigious Division I school to a place it has never been. Taking Harvard to the Big Dance would cement his Hall of Fame credentials as an accomplishment on par with anything Dean Smith or John Wooden has done...