Word: sand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American citizenry is not dumb. Don't keep telling us things will get better if we let you dictate how to run our personal lives. In my list of important things about this campaign, family values is fourth. Just ahead of that at No. 3 is counting all the sand on all the beaches in the world. Get the idea...
...instrumentation. "Before the San Andreas goes," reflects geologist Ken Hudnut somberly, "maybe we'll catch a precursor." A hot wind swoops across the desert as Hudnut retrieves a plastic box from under an oleander bush and pops the lid to reveal the small satellite receiver it shields from blowing sand. Nearby, a tripod-mounted antenna straddles a survey pipe like a spindly sentinel. Coded signals beamed down by orbiting ! satellites, Hudnut explains, serve to pinpoint the location of the pipe. The slightest shift in the pipe's position, and Hudnut will know the earth around it is on the move...
...Sand and other Cambridge election commissioners predicted the numbers would rise dramatically just before the fall elections...
...Martha's Vineyard, and I probably should have been outside. True, I did spend one afternoon at the beach. True, I got to wade in the Atlantic. And true, I got sand in my shoes and a sunburned nose, just like I'm supposed...
Pssst! Want to get rich quick? Stop buying gold bullion. Forget the stock market. Bag the racehorses. Just get your head out of the sand and buy some ostriches...