So I was just contemplating whether we were going to meet the same fate - the so-called "hammer treatment", or perhaps, I wondered, the river treatment - being dropped into the Nile tied to a cement block.

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Enacted in mediocre cement-block settings, the fantasy never develops any beauty or even a pulse.

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He spent billions of dollars on his "missions" well-publicized educational, health-and-welfare programs aimed at the millions who live in cement-block slums on the hillsides surrounding Caracas and other cities.

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Most owners like to race their Vipers on tracks, and to help the vehicle better handle such an environment, Dodge added a front sporter that hangs low on the car and is easily damaged if it scrapes a cement parking-lot block.

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Its brawny design including double-layer cinder-block walls reinforced by heavy duty steel bars and cement piers that plunge 30 feet into the ground should allow it to withstand winds up to 200 mph.

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