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.
For the remaining decade he and some hired engineers improved the aqua- barrier design, adding new products like protective sand-filled barrels and the first collapsible crash-cushions.
This was quite easy, because the sand at the bottom of the hole was very soft and fine and dry, like sea-sand.
From tee to green, golf on sand-green courses is just like regular golf.
In creating his "fungus accretion" vases, Simon brushed the rough surface of a ceramic vase with a clay-and-water solution until it built upon itself like a hand-dripped sand castle.
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But when you use some of your famous devastating one-liners about people - for example, of David Mellor, "a man who buried his head in the sand like an ostrich thereby exposing his thinking parts" - was that something that personally felt, was it something that you buffed up beforehand?
Only one place on Earth holds big, beautiful T. rex-like dinosaurs in relatively soft sand, in a vast, remote landscape that all but insures privacy.
Ms. HARRELL-MILLER: Like breaking stone, like breaking sand.
Other landmarks are also visible from the 273-room Grand Marina, including the Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia cathedral, which looks like a gigantic sand castle.
These oceans, and the fish that live there, are full of plastic, reduced to confetti, incessant from shore to shore, spread out like a spoonful of sand across a football field, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface.
The stylish development has a bit of a resort-like feel, with a pool area, outdoor barbecue grills and a sand volleyball court behind a spacious student recreation center with towering glass walls enclosing a fitness center, ping pong tables and a video game-playing area (on huge flat-screen TVs), among other amenities.
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Some have been duly celebrated, like Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), author of the remarkable A Sand County Almanac (1949), of Chief Justice William O.
It can be made a model of DNA, or a model of a whole city like this one is, and sometimes they can make the model exist in the silicon of a computer, so you've got a computer model, and other times, they actually use real silicon and sand, which they're doing it, in this case, like a giant hands-on model.
About 360km from Windhoek, Swakopmund feels like a German Baltic beach resort -- apart from the palm trees and desert sand.
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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Many beach-home owners like to decorate with objects or art that offer a nod to the sand and surf but there's a way to do that stylishly, so the home doesn't look like a chintzy souvenir shop, Mr. Aram believes.
It also feels like the market has already valued the company with a Nokia-like outcome: a market leader with great technology that kept its head in the sand as competitors stole the market with great products.
To some it seemed like the Justice Department had drawn a line in the sand against online poker and set a two-year time frame to go after industry players.
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