Word: hardens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...want to introduce the Jacuzzi to newly affluent Chinese peasants. Instead of shipping the tubs from California, you simply ship the VEC unit, or cell. To make the tubs, two composite skins are draped over a foam model, and a thermochemical reaction causes them to harden into shape. (Because no metal bending is involved and the "thermoset" process uses chemistry, not immense heat, the molds cost a fraction of the conventional version.) The skins are then attached to a universal frame. The cell is closed and filled with pressurized water, which braces the skins together. Then composite materials are injected...
...Jewish state to Nazi Germany and denied the Holocaust. To further alienate Israelis, Syria has stepped up support for the terrorist group Hezbollah. Barak has promised his people a referendum should he reach an agreement with his Syrian interlocutors, but these statements, coupled with Syrian-backed violence in Lebanon, harden the Israeli electorate against a peace treaty with Syria and make it increasingly difficult for Barak to sell a future peace to his own people. Syria's reckless statements that offend the Israeli electorate's most basic sensibilities reduce Assad's chances of regaining the Golan Heights...
There seems to be one George W. Bush. The comparative simplicity of his character (validated by his good genes) will harden into a virtue of reliability that will be his greatest asset. But the public will wonder whether that one Bush is good enough - smart enough, mature enough, experienced enough. His body English is troubling (a certain jockstrap immaturity), and his spoken English can be even worse (incomplete sentences, spluttering non sequiturs...