Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team of paleontologists from China, Canada and the U.S. announced last week that they've discovered not one, but two new species of small dinosaur, each of which was clearly covered with feathers. According to their report, which appears in the latest issue of Nature, the specimens not only cement the increasingly popular theory that birds are descended directly from dinos. They also suggest that many kinds of dinosaur, including the vicious velociraptors that slashed their way through Crichton's fiction, may have been festooned with their own colorful plumage...
...nation's ailing roads and bridges aren't the only things likely to prosper from the $203 billion highway-spending act President Clinton signed last week. Analysts expect the government's pork-laden largesse to pave the way for solid growth at major cement and aggregate (sand and gravel) providers as public construction projects multiply in the next few years. Firms like Lafarge, Southdown, Martin Marietta Materials and Vulcan Materials will be busy laying down the concrete and asphalt, so look for their relatively affordable shares to keep rolling higher...
...like the U.S., Britain and China, had launched intense diplomacy to dissuade Pakistan from retaliatory tests. By last Tuesday, a CIA satellite overhead had observed trucks moving away from the Chagai site and concrete being poured to seal the underground test chamber. Calculating the time it would take the cement to harden so nuclear fallout wouldn't escape, the CIA predicted that the blast could occur by early Thursday...
Seniors are still trying to do it all. During these past few weeks, our overachieving Harvard mentality has prevented us from leaving stones unturned, chores unfinished and goals unfulfilled. Students are "bumping into" potential senators in "random" places, eager to cement "lasting friendships." Shopping carts filled with food from the Kahiki Cafe zoom out of Loker as the last cents of Crimson Cash disappear. The Widener stacks reek of bodily fluids. Several sorry individuals are still trying out for Crimson Key. And John Harvard is more pissed than usual...
...associations forced Pollution Control Industries to back out of the deal. "It may be a terror weapon, but it's no more dangerous than gasoline," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's flammable, but not explosive." While PCI had planned to turn the napalm into fuel for cement kilns, it's now firing a frenzy of lobbying by congressmen determined to keep that incendiary train rolling right along...