Word: cements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly a fireman heard a thin voice crying for help as though from deep in a cave. Dana Bradley, 20, lay in the darkness of the basement under a pile of cement girders, bleeding and her body dangerously cooling in a foot of water. But when a team of four fire fighters found her, they faced one harsh decision after another. That southwest corner of the building was highly unstable; there were girders smashed everywhere, with hundreds of tons of the remaining building above them. Bradley was lodged in a space so small that the doctors could scarcely reach...
...lead to face-to-face contact, not away from it.'' At its best, the sprawling Internet brings together people with mutual interests who, for reasons ranging from geography to social and income disparity, would otherwise never have met. These virtual friendships can lead to physical encounters that may cement lifelong relationships. ``The cybercommunity is not separate from your community of friends; it's just not geographically local,'' says Carolyn Ybarra, an anthropology Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. When Ybarra moved west from Minneapolis, her online quilting group threw an in-person farewell party. Since then, she has become good friends...
...once home to 60 temples, shaded by the red-tile roofs of old shop-front ``tube houses''--so called because many, as deep as 50 m, are only 2 m to 3 m wide. Now the neighborhood is becoming dominated by boutiques, bars and ``mini- hotels'' of cheap cement and glass. ``The ancient city is being destroyed,'' says Mayor Hoang Van Nghien. He is also concerned that the huge dikes that protect Hanoi from the Red River may collapse under the weight of new homes and hotels, causing a devastating flood...
...helped by the fact that he entrusted the job of winning votes in Congress to ex-Wall Street whiz and newly appointed Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. The former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs knew many of Mexico's leading industrialists (his business contacts included Telefonos de Mexico; cement giant Cemex; and Banco National de Mexico, the country's largest bank). But after two years as head of Clinton's National Economic Council, Rubin knew little about lobbying Capitol Hill. Although Treasury had prepared a state-by-state analysis of how a Mexican meltdown would affect U.S. employment, for example, most...
...leave the Hill, can you believe that?" with a characteristically brash reply, "So let's go. We'll just go, anywhere." Given what's gone before, the audience knows that's impossible, Instead, after a final, chilling shot, black and white blur into the realistic gray of masonry cement...