Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secondary or side streets, they use pickled sand--a mixture of salt and sand--which helps provide traction...
...testimony to the increasingly schizophrenic character of the Brown New Yorker. Literary gems like Francine du Plessix Gray's review of the Flaubert-Sand epistolary relationship as documented by assorted biographers share pages with tawdry baubles such as John Seabrook's near-hagiographic piece on an obscure art director (whose 15 minutes are ticking rapidly away). And why, oh why do we need to learn anything more about Kate Moss, the waifish model with the look of utter imbecility...
Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy, the actingchief, said yesterday that the maintenanceproblems were temporary inconveniences stemmingfrom the installation of a handicapped rampoutside the station. He said the tile in the men'sand women's bathrooms was replaced a month ago,and that the new tile does not contain asbestos...
Modern enough to settle for a Belgium on sand? Let us hope. Because only in this case, only if the vision of Israelis and Palestinians building fiber- optic cables together is no fantasy, does this peace have a chance...
Adnan sat in the sand with some of his Palestinian neighbors just a few yards away from an open sewer in the Gaza Strip's Shati Camp and promised the destruction of Israel. "Yasser Arafat means nothing to me," he said. "I want all of Palestine back." Adnan, who gave only his first name for fear of arrest by military authorities, lost his job in Israel last March when the government sealed off the violence-riddled Gaza Strip. "My parents were thrown out of their town in 1948," says Adnan, 25. "Any Russian Jew can live there...