Word: cements
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...style and her presence, of course, are not what we usually associate with the U.S. Open's green cement courts, and certainly not with Wimbledon's trimmed lawn courts, where Williams won her first major tennis title earlier this summer. There is an edge to Williams' vogue that seems to embrace her womanliness as much as it rejects its conventions and etiquette. Williams' most recognizable feature is her braided and beaded hair. And while her flashy, swinging braids rebel against the tennis decorum of ponytails or cropped hair, the style also admits to her vanity...
MICHIGAN Gore has struggled to cement labor's support here. The United Auto Workers met with Nader before finally endorsing Gore. That helped knock Nader down from...
Once Cheney was Bush's choice, there was no one to vet the vetter. Even if there had been, the bond had grown so strong Bush would not have wanted to see that Cheney's record lacks the compassion Bush spent a year trying to cement to the word conservative. Like the mild-mannered, nice guy he is, Cheney smiled when he voted against calling for Nelson Mandela's release from prison and in favor of cop-killer bullets, against $1 billion for Head Start but for a $870 billion tax cut. Until his record was parsed this week...
...Vegas cement truck driver and became a lance corporal in the U.S. Marines. She was Arab royalty, born to a world of servants and limousines, a world where women who date non-Muslims are often considered prostitutes. And then they fell in love...
...odor arising out of the recent release of his Palestinian Authority's report to its donors, which includes potentially damaging disclosures of development money rerouted into a slush fund, a $60 million stake in a West Bank casino project and $18 million in profits derived from its monopoly on cement. With so little of the billions pumped into the Palestinian territories over the past six years having found their way into infrastructure and job creation (despite the minting of a few Palestinian millionaires), it may be fair to question the economic viability of a state declared by Arafat's administration...