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Q:My older house has a number of cracks in the plaster walls and ceilings. In some cases, the plaster is pulling away from the wood lath behind it. Can I fix these like drywall cracks - taping over them and using joint compound? - Lawrence
A:If you want the repairs to last, you'll need to take some extra steps, especially where the plaster is pulling loose. The loose plaster must be secured to the lath. The time-honored way to do this is to fasten the plaster to the lath with washers. Traditionally, the washers are made of very thin galvanized metal about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. The washers are secured with drywall screws. When you have the loose plaster secured, you tape the cracks and conceal everything with patching plaster or drywall joint compound. If you use joint compound, a "s...
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Embargoed for Friday, November 18 Release
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Women are cracking boardroom glass ceilings all over Europe, spurred on by new quota requirements in many countries to put women at the top, according to the latest Corporate Women Directors International study of women directors in Fortune Global 200 companies, the biggest in the world.
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Few laws regarding economic regulation have a longer history than usury laws. (1) Strong attempts to limit usury punctuate Western h...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The national deficit has been a hot button topic for months, and since increasing the United States' debt ceiling, global economies worldwide have been on a rollercoaster, leaving many people's 401Ks in the balance. While our country's debt is sure to be a mainstay in the media through next year's presidential election, it has brought to light another important topic that isn't getting much coverage: the decreasing debt ceilings held by businesses in the private sector.
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[Christiane Amanpour] has made a career not of toadying to power but challenging it. "Mr. President, it's a privilege to address you from Sarajevo," she said via satellite to [Bill Clinton] before he decided to intervene militarily in the Balkans. "You tonight just said that Bosnia was just a humanitarian catastrophe. Surely, sir, you would agree it is so much more than that, a fundamental question of international law and order. You also said that it is clearly in your national interest, the U.S. national interest. So my question is, as leader of the free world, as leader of the only superpower, why has it taken you, the United States, so long to articulate a policy on Bosnia?
While Amanpour does not exactly have a politics- right-wingers pretend that she's a left-winger because she d...
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WASHINGTON - When the history of the 2012 campaign is written, a special place may be reserved for Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services and ex-governor of Kansas, who is doing her best to make the Affordable Care Act - aka, Obamacare - disappear as a political liability for the president.
The most compelling evidence of this is her decision to delegate to states the final decision on defining "essential health benefits" for minimum health insurance coverage.
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Very few high-quality panoramic photographs are printed at those larger sizes because of printer restrictions. You can't find the same high-resolution photo quality provided by the Epson and Canon photographic printers in a billboard-sized printer," explains [Mark Andrews]. "However, printing the canvas as wallpaper and having professionals apply it frees up the dimensional restrictions of the printer.