Word: sand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a classic bring-your-own operation," says one four-star Army logistician. That means supplying their own night lights at the airport, radar systems for air-traffic control, generators -- and then fuel to run them. Logistics managers are sending three times the normal spare parts, worried that sand could be a constant problem...
Snow removal crews were ready for early Mondaymorning work to break up ice with salt and sand,said Director of Facilities Maintenance Thomas E.Vantin. Yesterday morning the sidewalks outside ofsome of the upperclass houses were slick withslush and snow...
...page agenda titled the New American Choice. With its emphasis on private-sector growth, personal responsibility and community service, the booklet anticipated many of Clinton's campaign proposals, as well as the party's 1992 platform. Notes Paul Begala, a top Clinton strategist: "Every oyster needs a grain of sand to make a pearl. Al From is the grain of sand that made the Clinton candidacy...
Others would call From the sand in the party's shoe. A curmudgeonly Indiana native, he is tolerated more than he is loved. From grew up in South Bend, graduated from Northwestern University with a journalism degree and went to work for Lyndon Johnson in the war on poverty. An anomaly in Democratic politics -- he is neither pollster, nor consultant, nor academic, nor public official -- From is responsible less for crafting the leadership council's proposals than for selling them. From raised the money, organized the conferences, hired the experts and started 30 council chapters nationwide. "Al is the impresario...
...WIND, SAND & SILENCE...