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...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...
...“China only procures sand and gravel locally for construction projects,” said Nasir Sohrabi, president of Gwadar’s Rural Community Development Council....
...Elon Musk’s meteoric rise may have seemed unstoppable in 2020, but the humble sand lizard has put the brakes on Tesla’s plans for a €4bn electric car factory in Germany....
...I thought of Neruda — “Night, snow and sand/Make up the form of my thin country/All silence lies in its long line.”...
...Rocks are placed to represent islands or coastal outcrops, while carefully controlled raked gravel suggests the ocean....
...There are few simpler technologies in the home than the humble light switch, which for most people works reliably without the addition of WiFi or Bluetooth....
...Its unpolluted sand and gravel lies at the base of the pit. “The medieval builders excavated down to the gravel for a solid foundation,” says Dean. “And we’re going to do the same for the new tower.”...
...But the Hebridean Princess has more humble origins: she started life in 1964 as a car ferry, carrying up to 600 passengers and 50 cars....
...Aggregates are crushed stone, gravel and sand that go into roads and are combined with cement to make concrete....
...There was nothing exactly humble, or indeed subtle about the message that was being telegraphed here, namely da Vinci and Ferragamo: Italian genius....
...GQ: a sprinkle of sand on the City’s Christmas canapés. Disclosure of bidders’ intentions towards the target company....
...Unlike José Ignacio, it has no golden sand or fragrant pine woods, just village dogs scampering on gravel streets, buildings of brick and cement fronting a grass plaza, and parakeets squabbling in the trees...
...“Their homes might be humble but they’re spotless, their children are beautifully turned out, the level of education and intelligence is high and they want to work and get on in life....
...Humble pie During the 1990s technology boom, Michael Dell was never afraid to dismiss his competitors in the computer industry as also-rans, if not utter failures....
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