Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...account. By 1967 inflation and taxes had reduced the gain to zero. In the year 1970, that same average family would have lost $110; and in 1979 it would have lost $830. "Just like money in the bank" no longer meant certainty and stability. Now savings were like a sand castle, slowly being washed away by wave after wave of inflation...
...Sand Diego 13, Montreal...
...main cluster of building formed a long rectangle, which was set in the middle of a great field. About half a mile to the right the calm edge of the Atlantic Ocean rubbed against a thin strip of sand. The grass was strangely green, despite the season. On the far side of the chapel the vague outlines of athletic fields were etched into the ground, and in the distance, to the left of the science building, stood the tiny observatory, a traditional sanctuary for lovers, or so we had been told...
There are solutions for injustice in America; they include the redistribution of wealth and resources, and an end to paralysing discrimination. Those will not be easy goals to achieve--they have tormented America for generations. But they will come sooner if we stop sticking our heads in the sand, if we stop wishing that our deepest societal sicknesses were not "important...
...This certainly isn't Cocoa Beach, where you feel the sand between your toes," Ray Morth, a 51-year-old daily Fresh Pond jogger says, huffing heavily between words. "But," he adds, "it's the closest thing...