Word: cements
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...Jocks in Cement Blocks...
Graffiti adorns cement walls of some industrial buildings and grassy alleys between apartment complexes. Laundry hangs on fire escape balconies overlooking the parking lot of a mom-and-pop grocery store...
...largest group got the most positions. Koizumi ignored that, a move that particularly irritated the most powerful faction, headed by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. As a result, the factions, supportive as they are of lucrative local projects and pricey bank bailouts, have fought back and continue trying to cement the loyalty of Diet members by promising to keep the gravy train running. Koizumi himself, though once a member of the second largest faction, has always been a lone operator. Never good at building parliamentary alliances, he lacks the power base to vote-trade his agenda through the Diet, leaving...
...conviviality and togetherness as French people started fiddling with their euro coins and bills. Buying my usual baguette at my local bakery on Jan. 1, I witnessed a spending frenzy by customers eager to put the currency to the test. The euro could prove to be the new cement of European identity and overcome some of the trials of the European Union. FRANCOIS VANNEREAU Tours, France...
...past three years, Lindita Rexhepi, an ethnic Albanian high school student from the mining city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, has not been able to go home. She was 14 when Serb troops expelled her and her family from their small cement-block home as part of their offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels and forced them across the border into Montenegro. When the war ended in 1999, they returned to find the narrow road into their hillside neighborhood blocked by Serbs, many of whom had fled here from Albanian-dominated areas elsewhere in Kosovo. The last time Lindita tried...