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• n  the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean
• n  a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
• n  French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)
• n  fortitude and determination
• v  rub with sandpaper

• With a push from Exxon, Alberta's tar sands are poised to increase oil production to Saudi-like levels.

• littoral
• litoral
• littoral zone
• sand
• Sand
• George Sand
• Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin
• Baroness Dudevant
• backbone
• grit
• guts
• moxie
• gumption
• sandpaper

News & Articles

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• Sands Bethlehem Event Center is giving people a second chance to be anti-social
  Sands Bethlehem Event Center is giving people a second chance to be anti-social.        
  June 15, 2013 - The Morning Call
• White Sands welcomes new battalion commander
  White Sands Missile Range welcomed incoming 2nd Engineer Battalion Commander Lt. Col. James R. Koeppen on Friday during a ceremony at the 2nd Engineer Battalion Parade Field.
  June 15, 2013 - Las Cruces Sun-News
• Sands is waived
  The Bengals have waived safety Robert Sands. A fifth-round draft pick in 2011, Sands was on injured serve last season due to a chest muscle injury. In 2011 he got into only one game and was inactive for the rest. The Bengals are one player under the 90-man limit.
  June 12, 2013 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Quotes

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• Paul Cellucci in International Herald Tribune
  Clearly, Obama is not going to shut down all the coal burning plants in the United States,Cellucci said. "He's putting the oil sands into the same basket. It sounds to me like he's not going to support restricting oil from the oil sands...
• Stephen Harper in FOXNews
  To be frank on the oil sands, we've got to do a better job environmentally,Harper said. "At the same time, the development of these things is pretty important, in our judgment, to North American energy security."
• Quentin Davies in guardian.co.uk
  In his letter to Mr Cameron, Mr Davies wrote: "Under your leadership the Conservative party appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything. It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of...