There are said to be more than 156 kilometers of double track checker plate steel creating drivable roads in the sand and more than 4, 000 hollow steel floating pontoons supporting 18 temporary bridges spanning the Ganga and Yamuna.
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The sea is coming, and his carefully built castle, it turns out, is little more than sand.
The public face of their San Francisco firm, Venture Frogs, is more Melrose Place than Sand Hill Road.
He said that those behind the project were intent on building a world-class resort whose main attraction for golfers would be the surrounding sand dunes rather than the Causeway itself.
It turned out that the concrete was made using beach-sand that was not properly desalinated, rather than more expensive quarry-sand.
The firm has been extracting minerals from the region's coastal sand dunes for more than three decades, having set up a massive operation along the shore.
The unemployment rate in sand states remains higher than in the country as a whole (10.7% vs. 8% according to Goldman), while the employment-to-population ratio is lower (55.8% vs. 59.3%).
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Even if migration of hydraulic fracturing fluids into water aquifers were possible, hydraulic fracturing fluids are typically 90% water, 9% sand, and less than 1% other compounds, many of which are common household products that appear in foods anyway.
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The fast-growing market opportunity in China and India also gives women a chance to get into top tier venture firms that are new to the market rather than on Sand Hill Road, where positions are already taken by partners who started the firms years ago, and their successors.
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And while these works may seem ephemeral - often made from sand and mud rather than canvas and paint, their creators clearly expect them to survive beyond the next exhibition, leaving detailed instructions of how to recreate the work, and often rebuilding it themselves (as Turner nominee Karla Black did last week with her powder and make-up creation on the floor of Tramway).
So in late 1997, when the navy began dredging 9m cubic yards of sand from San Diego harbour, a ready-made solution seemed at hand: the dredgings would more than replace the beach sand lost over the past decade.
The 24 beaches around the private island all of which are only accessible by foot or dinghy are covered in finer-than-fine sand.
Mr Packard's recently signed bill resuscitates the navy's project by allowing the navy to obtain clean sand from anywhere, rather than just from dredging.
Wal-Mart is well positioned to take advantage of the improving economy sand uptick in consumer spending more than Best Buy is.
Most are smaller than a grain of sand, according to the American Meteor Society, and usually burn up before they hit Earth's surface.
Prosecutors said Thursday that Robert Sand, 50, spent more than a decade evading his obligations to his three children by his two former wives.
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But there will be more than a few doglegs and sand traps in the way of this pending merger.
"Spain is the key line in the sand, its economy is much bigger than Greece's and so it would take a far greater amount to bail it out, " he says.
My impression is that the men socialize with one another and build on these connections better than the women do on Sand Hill Road, not to mention Wall Street and corporate America.
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Tommy later discovered that his company had spent more time than they should have on the sand dunes, after losing contact with their commanding officer.
Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles every day, much of it falling into the oceans or remote areas, and otherwise going unnoticed.
IPv6 actually makes the issue of Internet security that much worse, because IP addresses are the true root of identity and we just added a staggering number of them more addresses than the number of grains of sand on the entire planet Earth.
Fylde Borough Council said more than 90% of Lancashire's sand dunes were on the Fylde coast.
Some say Sand put more of her imagination into her life than her writing, says Ms Chandernagor.
Sand has been quarried in the area for more than 150 years and is used around the world as well as locally, the council added.
The market cap of Petrobras has shed billions since she took over from what many Petrobras watchers say is nothing more than a policy instrument for Brasilia to funnel money to pet projects, rather than an actual oil company drilling below sand and rock salt in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Johnny remembers when Palm Springs still had sand on the roads, the desert encroaching much more than it does today.
In addition, though, it is doped with powdered quartz (the pure stuff, rather than the tainted variety that makes up most sand) and various reinforcing metals and fibres.
But that was not before fishermen about 70km south of the plant had caught tiny sand-eels, known as konago, with larger than normal traces of radioactive iodine and caesium.
When it comes to the gun control debate, as is so often the case, Washington politicians either have their heads in the sand or are opting to do what is easier rather than what is effective.
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