Word: sanding
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What this city needs to move forward constructively and to get beyond the hollow sloganeering of the 1991 city election is a politics of inclusion grounded on facts. Comments which foment divisiveness between age and ethnic groups help no one and act like sand in the gears of our city's political process. William S. Noble
Stand in the Lake Perris foothills and look north to the hard browns and purples of the Badland hills and the San Gorgonios Mountains: between the lake and the peaks, Moreno Valley sprawls across the desert floor. While dust devils dance on the shimmering sand, summer heat relentlessly fills all spaces. This is pioneer and pathfinder country, a desert that developers turned into the mother of all real estate opportunities by diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Oroville reservoir, far to the north. This is a place for hardworking parents, with wagon-train hearts, seeking picket...
...Duke scholar is currently at work on a book on George Sand and is the editor of the journal Differences...
Were thousands of Iraqis buried alive during the allied operation against their front line last February? U.S. Army officers say that as tanks equipped with plows and bulldozers punched holes in the 70-mile-long Iraqi defense strip, enemy soldiers who refused to surrender were trapped under avalanches of sand. Colonel Anthony Moreno, commander of a unit that followed the initial U.S. breakthrough, recalls seeing arms protruding from the sand. "For all I know, we could have buried thousands," he told New York Newsday...
...Massachusetts shares with North Dakota the dubious distinction of having the most restrictive parental involvement laws in the nation," Weld said. "The reality is that the number of teen pregnancies has skyrocketed in Massachusetts. We can either ignore this reality by sticking our heads in the sand or we can take responsible action to protect the lives of these young women...