Otherwise, we are trying to build on sand or air or something equally insubstantial.

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My impression is that the men socialize with one another and build on these connections better than the women do on Sand Hill Road, not to mention Wall Street and corporate America.

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President Obama announced Thursday that the federal government was approving a small part of a plan by state and local officials in Louisiana to spray sand on gulf barrier islands to build them up as a defense against incoming oil.

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The managers, as was true of the majority report and the independent counsel referral (ph) before that build their theory in this case not only any pillars of obstruction, but on shifting sand castles of speculation.

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And the sand carried by the people we met on the road was to help build a chicken shed.

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