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...Bill Alford's troubles began during the devastating winter storms of 1982. That January a 15-ft. chunk of earth slid away from in front of their bluff-top home in Bolinas, Calif., about 30 miles north of San Francisco, and crashed to the beach below. A year later another 15 ft. vanished, leaving the house just a few feet from the edge of a 160-ft. cliff. So, in the summer of 1984, the Alfords moved their 1,300-sq.-ft. house 32 ft. back from the edge. Then came Valentine's Day 1985. Following unusually high tides...
...largest chunk of the council's operating budget goes towards running a three-room office in Canaday Hall. Curiously, the better part of that chunk goes toward former founding council member and two-term chairman Brian R. Melendez...
Want to buy some air pollution? In smoggy Los Angeles and other U.S. urban areas, pollution brokers match companies in the market for a chunk of pollutable air with businesses that are operating below their pollution quota...
...contrast with the Senate proposal, the HouseBudget Committee recommended last week to boostall educational programs by $2.2 billion--with ayet unspecified "goodly chunk" going directly tofinancial aid programs, congressional aid KathyAusley said yesterday...
Living out a classic male fantasy, Remar Sutton spends a year in the Bahamas reshaping from chunk to hunk and hyping the result...