Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REAL delight in the film, though, is what the Coen's don't include: the bits and pieces of plots and suggestions of plots that appear at the fringes of the frame: the strange prisoner who claims to eat sand, the Mad Biker's bronzed baby shoes, and an unexplained tattoo coincidence...
...sympathetic, and if the talks go well, will consider giving Brazil new loans. But their patience will not last indefinitely. Says a U.S. banker based in Sao Paulo: "The banks want Brazil to admit it has problems, show a feasible plan for dealing with them, and stop throwing sand in the faces of creditors...
...have stopped denying that the AIDS threat exists, officials fearful that publicity about the AIDS epidemic will hurt tourism and foreign investment have continued to play it down. In Zambia, the Lusaka government banned all press statements on AIDS last March. Government officials are "putting their heads in the sand and hoping the disease cures itself," charges one Zambian doctor, who expects to see "scores of thousands of deaths from AIDS" in the next two years...
Public Works officials filled the sinkhole with sand. They determined that the street was safe to open about five hours after the hole first formed, Walsh said...
...somnolence in this its 351st year, Alumni Against Apartheid, which sponsored Seidman's candidacy, has mounted another offensive. With continued alumni support, some of this year's six unofficial divestment candidates may continue to spark reforms in Harvard's bureacratic mudpuddle. May they lift a few heads from the sand...