The claims that the government is continuing to allow the redevelopment of school playing fields follow its public assertions last year that it had stemmed the tide of school land sales.

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In the 1960s, when the land again came under threat, governor Tom McCall passed the Beach Bill, which declared that all land within 16ft of the low tide line belonged to the people.

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Frogs surface-dived into puddles and with a wriggle or two, dissolved into the muddy bottom, and land crabs ran en-pointe along the tide line.

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The tide has changed and a south wind forces me to land this particular day on the shore near the Tomales Bay Oyster Company, which sits across the water from Inverness.

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The preseason rankings had the Tide pegged as the second-best college football team in the land, and the Wolverines as the eighth-best.

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The solons may vow that speculation and leverage will never again ravage the land, but they might just as well try to repel the tide.

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Eventually even the remaining land masses would be destroyed as the direction of offshore winds and the tide forced the coastline ever westwards.

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Simon also helps international students who don't yet have jobs to land short-term consulting engagements in the U.S. The thinking is it will tide them over for a few months after graduation and allow them to continue hunting for a more permanent U.S.-based position.

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