Word: sanded
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Like the play it helped spawn, the '60s snapshot is remarkable for its ordinariness. Against a sand dune the young family sit: mother in straw hat and Dame Edna glasses; a bronzed, bare-chested father holding his knee; their son dressed in a tropical shirt squinting at the sun. The latter is Michael Gow aged 6, holidaying near Ulladulla on the New South Wales south coast, though that's about all the Australian playwright can remember. "In my memory, Christmas holidays went from about 1959 to 1970," recalls Gow, 51. "There's just this kind of weird dream...
...could become very expensive to live in the region,” he said. “The amount it changes will depend on how we act in the next 50 years.” The study considered three potential responses to climate change: the head-in-the-sand approach, which involves taking no action; the structural approach, which involves reacting to imminent damage; and the “green” approach, which includes using preventative measures. Whichever approach the city opts to employ, Anderson said that addressing climate change is a global responsibility. “Boston...
...Board member, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said at the time, “There had been so much stuff going on that I think you’d have to have had your head in the sand to be completely surprised...
...backed Schuster, saying that while “some people have accused me of causing the enrollment decline by talking about it, it’s essential that people feel that we know there is a problem and that we’re taking our heads out of the sand.” She added that the marketing survey would help to pinpoint what the School Committee needed to do to draw families back into the schools. Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings...
...backed Schuster, saying that while “some people have accused me of causing the enrollment decline by talking about it, it’s essential that people feel that we know there is a problem and that we’re taking our heads out of the sand.”She added that the marketing survey would help to pinpoint what the School Committee needed to do to draw families back into the schools.Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings...