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...But the second that it can annoy a Nato ally he goes, well, no, no, this line in the sand must be drawn....
...Sales of sand and gravel extracted in the US for industrial purposes rose 78 per cent in value last year, well above the 30 per cent rise in volumes, according to the US survey....
...Lucy Fisher Has your phone been buzzing with people furious that they’re not on it? Jim Pickard (Laughs) Lucy Fisher Let’s take that as a yes and move on, shall we?...
...Earlier this year I joined him as he finally made it there, on a reconnaissance trip for his eponymous travel company....
...For the Italian artist Annie Ratti, it lends a calming atmosphere to her London home and studio, renovated by design and research company Material Cultures....
...“There are beach roses coming out in the sand dunes, and the peonies and hydrangeas are in bloom in gardens across the town — the place is really at its prettiest now.”...
...John and Peggy Fisher had to dig two while putting up and refurbishing the cluster of delightful wooden buildings that together comprise the Fishers’ Loft Inn, perched above Trinity Bay on a heathery hillside...
...Lorries laden with sand and gravel speed down highways, pick-up trucks haul trailers carrying shining new diggers and SUVs cart diesel engines and coils of piping....
...Taiwan imported 5.7mn metric tons of sand and gravel in 2020, with more than 90 per cent coming from China. Natural sand made up 8 per cent of the total, according to government statistics....
...The price of aggregates — which includes sand, gravel and concrete — surged 63.2 per cent in the year to July, while the cost of concrete reinforcing bars rose 37.8 per cent....
...That night, our last, Soulimane made taguella, a traditional Tuareg bread, baked in the sand beneath a bed of embers....
...Many were conjured from the sands by Dezer and his father, Michael. The one with the never-ending marble is the Dezers’ 56-storey Residences by Armani/Casa....
...After college, Villar quit an accounting job to become a full-time entrepreneur, supplying seafood to restaurants as well as selling gravel and sand, which introduced him to real estate, the sector that...
...Fisher, who moved here in 1975, says I’ll regret having got him started....
...We wheel our bikes on to the golden beaches at Camber Sands, where we have an ice cream and a chilly dip....
...It is a new addition to Ravendere Retreats, the holiday lettings company of landowners Kieran and Helen Fisher, whose 12 acres of tangled woodland provide its setting....
...China accounts for 58 per cent of global sand and gravel demand, according to UNEP data....
...One company, Wilderness England, recently rebranded a slower-selling five-day cycling tour around Yorkshire as “self-guided plus”....
...“China only procures sand and gravel locally for construction projects,” said Nasir Sohrabi, president of Gwadar’s Rural Community Development Council....
...The sheer scale of sand and gravel extraction is creating what the UN Environment Programme has called “one of the major sustainability challenges of the 21st century”....
...Our insurance company wrote to say we would no longer be covered. The woman who looked after my 88-year-old mother told me she was going to leave....
...We are driving off the map, bumping over gravel and sand, following the slow-swaying caravan of camels driven by the turbaned Rashaida....
...So we beat on, Massoud, Mohammed and me, careering across plains of gravel and gypsum, leaving plumes of dust in our wake, until, bowling over ripples of sand, we arrived at a clutch of white tents pitched...
...“Gravel” is just a label for unpaved roads and tracks, be they covered in mud, sand, rock or nondescript dirt....
...Several groups, from clothing retailer Eileen Fisher and Walt Disney’s theme parks to casino operator Las Vegas Sands, have said they will continue to pay staff while their operations are shuttered....
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