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Asbestos fibers in the shafts were located in dust on steel beams, in the pores of the cement walls, and on other mechanical parts of the elevator...

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Elevators Open to Public | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...with his plan to put all small business and housing into private hands by 1994, and at least 60% of big business by 1995, initially through the voucher plan. Actually, some of Civic Union's supporters may not resist: they hope to buy up many of the vouchers and cement their control of businesses by becoming the official owners as well as the managers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Counterreformation | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

Male friendship, to judge from television commercials, is both natural and automatic -- just get a bunch of guys together, down a six-pack and cement lifelong bonds by being there when the Swedish Bikini Team arrives. Reality, of course, is a bit more complicated. Think of the extremes modern men actually go to in their quest for fellowship: bonding by beating on drums in pseudo-Indian rituals, forming Rotisserie baseball leagues to talk trades on the telephone like seven-year-old boys and, yes, campaigning for national office on the same ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Happy Together | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...President Zaheer R. Ali '94 agreed. "The problem is that when there's a conflict, communication breaks down between the groups involved," he said. "Hopefully this retreat will cement a dialogue...that will continue through periods of conflict that may arise...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Epps Invites Leaders to Retreat | 8/18/1992 | See Source »

...final stages of preparing several hundred pages of regulation upon regulation, written in droning legalese. Yet once approved by the three governments, the trade pact will mark a dramatic turn in the history of the continent: at a stroke it will formalize a grand economic alliance, cement Mexico into a unity it has always occupied geographically, if not psychologically and culturally, and reshape the way North American business is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megamarket | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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