Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After initial skepticism, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory agreed to take SIR photos in 1984 during two passes over southern Arabia by the Challenger space shuttle. Experts found faint white lines marking hundreds of kilometers of long-abandoned caravan routes, some running underneath sand dunes that over the centuries had grown 183 m (600 ft.) high...
Johnson and Mather House tutor Roland L. Dunbrack `85--a member of the faculty student committee studying the issue--seem to be at the center of the movement to sever ties with ROTC. Sand L. Dubowski '92 and Sandy Cavazos '92, who are co-chairs of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student association (BGLSA), referred questions about their group's position to Johnson...
...their defensive oil-filled trenches. Kinsley writes: "On February 23, the day the ground war started, The Washington Post reported about this weapon that at first we didn't have, then would never use except against a chemical attack, then were using to clear mine fields and pack down sand: 'All of the front-line Iraqi troops have been subjected to extensive bombardment, including many detonations of BLU-82 bombs, containing fuel-air explosives.'" It was firestorms all over again. "But by then, who cared...
...going to be hard to know how schools are going to react. We certainly can't bury our heads in the sand," said Miller. "On the other hand, we feel need-blind admissions and need-based financial aid is the best way to build a quality student body...
...businesses -- they lost millions. After six months in a barracks at the Santa Anita Racetrack, we were sent to Heart Mountain, Wyo. We arrived in the middle of a blinding snowstorm, five of us children in our California clothes. When we got to our tar-paper barracks, we found sand coming in through the walls, around the windows, up through the floor...