Word: cementation
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
Presiding over inter-Korean peace has multiple advantages for the Chinese: South Korea has become a major investor in China's newly capitalist economy, and Beijing is hoping that delivering a more pliant Pyongyang to the negotiating table - as China appears to have done - will cement its ties with Seoul. Besides transferring responsibility for the North Korean basket-case economy to Seoul, it also raises China's prestige as a responsible and powerful regional problem-solver. Beijing wouldn't be at all sad to see the departure of all those U.S. troops from its doorstep, and it would look...
...flexible and don't expect to win all the time," she said. "Standing in principle is not the same as standing in cement...
...only three years after the University was criticized by a number of Boston officials and residents for anonymously buying land in Allston, Harvard is vying to further expand its presence in the area--and perhaps to cement plans to eventually relocate an entire graduate school to Allston...
...left to decide the fate of its own adoption records. While it's possible the Court could revisit this issue, it seems increasingly unlikely. The Supreme Court refused to hear a similar case from a Tennessee court, and O'Connor's unwillingness to block the Oregon law seems to cement the Court's lack of interest in dealing with adoption rights...