Like Frank Lloyd Wright, Miss Gordon was born in the wide open spaces of the northern mid-west.

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So, Silicon Valley dwellers, with the cheap land and wide-open spaces of a generation ago long gone you tell us: why stick around?

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Its budget may be restricted, but Dog In The Sand is an album of wide open musical spaces.

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Africans say correctly that theirs is a continent of wide-open spaces.

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We used to roam the wide plains of the Midwest and the open spaces of the American Southwest in vast herds.

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Think outside the glass with a trip to Safari West, a Santa Rosa preserve on more than 4, 000 acres that is "a miniature replica of an African safari, complete with wide-open spaces with roaming animals, " says BBC Travel.

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If that was bad enough for the watching Johnson, the sight of Giteau motoring onto an overthrown line-out and into wide open spaces would hardly have brightened the England manager's mood.

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