Word: dust
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...properties, mostly to British, but now it is down to 18 to 20 a month," says Francisco Toro, director of Mark-Sol real estate agency in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. "When we get a client now, we must cosset him and treat him like gold dust. We have to work harder and spend more money on publicity." The influx of foreign cash has its darker side, too. Arrests earlier this year of 25 people in Marbella - including the mayor, her deputy mayor, two city councillors and the former chief of urban planning - offer a sobering glimpse...
Born in 1934 during the Dust Bowl, Lehrer was raised in the Midwest, and by age 18, he had set his sights on being a professional writer...
...serve liquor on the sidewalk? What difference does it make if you get drunk inside or outside?...In Pamplona we have more bars than churches. And we are not short of churches.” Outside, Josefina would sometimes find out her patrons’ true identities from the dust-jackets of books. The quiet and relaxed, yet welcoming, atmosphere of Pamplona attracted writers of all ilks. “They would come in at 11 in the morning and leave at 10 at night, just reading and writing,” Josefina archly told us, “That?...
...most common mistakes was to buy a mattress cover to protect against dust mites for a child whose asthma was exacerbated instead by plant pollen. Many of those parents then neglected to do what would have helped a lot more: shut the windows to keep pollen out. Another was using a humidifier for a child who was allergic to dust mites; a humidifier tends to be a place where dust mites like to breed. With those allergies, a dehumidifier works better...
...significant underdog, with few expecting it to have a shot at the championship. But Harvard raced aggressively to finish ahead of both Princeton and Yale—the two teams that had defeated the Crimson at the Goldthwait Cup just a month earlier.“To dust Yale like that, a team that had given us some trouble in the past, was very satisfying,” said junior varsity eight coxswain Mark Adomanis, who is also a Crimson editor.The success at IRAs was even more surprising given the personnel changes that Harvard had to deal with the entire...