The venture capitalists dotted along just one street in Silicon Valley--Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park--control around a third of America's independently-raised venture capital, and around a sixth of the world's total.
Among them were four tunes written inside an 80-square foot sand-box in Wilson's living room, installed "to recreate the feeling of being at the beach and the ocean".
They do not want it to be full of head-in-sand climate-change denial.
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New floodgates are being fitted to the Afon Erch near the town's harbour, and 400 metres of sand dunes - damaged in 2000 by a severe storm - are being strengthened.
We can see the ad, photos of models, a video trailer at a black-sand beach in Hawaii, and what would be called, on a DVD, a bonus feature on the making of the video.
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He had a striking story, having survived the plunge in metal prices in 2001 by turning NovaGold into a sand-and-gravel producer in western Alaska.
From any other publisher, these views would come across as mere cluelessness or head-in-the-sand-ism.
The president stepped over his no-taxes line-in-the-sand for those making less, but not by much more than the length of his big toe.
She noticed that if she dipped a sand-covered sweet potato in the water, she could clean it much faster.
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Dune: accumulations of wind-blown sand in ridges or mounds that lie landward of the beach and usually parallel to the shoreline.
The company is the second largest producer of commercial silica, which is a sand-like substance used in fracking as well as glass making and chemical manufacturing.
The Naughty Dog developers like a good technical and artistic challenge, and creating and rendering realistic-looking sand (in dunes, blowing in the wind, etc.) is no easy feat.
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In Wichita, Pajor said the city used half of its road-clearing salt and sand in last week's storm.
To make ends meet Van Nieuwenhuyse, now 50, had to turn NovaGold into a sand-and-gravel producer in western Alaska.
The 1204-1206 zone would be the next level to watch, and the new line in the sand is 1187-1195.
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Later came intensive memorising of the star-compass, a circle of coral pebbles, each pebble a star, laid out in the sand round a palm-frond boat.
Boehner and McConnell have redrawn even more deeply their lines in the sand over no taxes in any kind of a long-term deal.
As in the old Charles Atlas ads, the 97-pound weakling eventually gets tired of having sand kicked in his face, heads off to the gym and becomes just as muscled as the bully.
Now, given his post-election lines in the sand, he wants to rub that sand in.
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"Although this incident might seem very small in isolation, this is a line-in-the-sand moment for us, " Arthur told reporters.
Quad biking, sand-boarding and driving over the dunes in a 4x4 are somewhat less traditional activities, but no less memorable.
Users are throwing sand in Intel's money-making machine with their growing reluctance to pay a premium for PCs with powerful new chips.
We also need to help opposition groups in Iran far more than our supine, head-in-the-sand State Department has as yet allowed us to do.
Every Democrat in the country should be thrilled at at each and every clueless, head-in-the-sand, alternate universe comment from each and everyone of these Republican hopefuls.
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How we get there -- I'm not going to get into -- draw lines in the sand about what specifically we would support or not support.
While their female counterparts had to fight for their gold medal Thursday in wet sand and smog-stained rain, the U.S. men's beach volleyball team had sunny weather.
In recommending against PSA tests for early signs of prostate cancer, the United States Preventive Services Task Force has struck another blow for a head-in-the-sand approach to early detection of fatal illnesses.
Though five-star resorts such as the Intercontinental, the Hyatt and the Kempinski have long made their mark on this most diminutive of Indian states (all characterised by top-notch service, opulent surroundings and calm, sand-raked beaches) there is nevertheless much charm to be had in forsaking the mammoth swimming pools and generic - if generous - resort bedrooms, and plumping instead for a stay in one of Goa's most evocative, charismatic, heritage boutique hotels.
They founded Sand Hill Group in 1997 before the dot-com bubble and that yielded some big investment returns.
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That is the key line in the sand for the long-term bull trend.
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