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...Service, Owner Jack Brod was importuned by one eager customer to extract his loose, gold-filled tooth on the pot. Brod refused; the man left, but returned a few days later with tooth in hand. Typically, New York Dealer Harry Rodman paid one Maryland dentist $500 for the gold scrap and dust that he had collected with a special vacuum from dental grindings in just two years of practice. Dealers also quietly bought gold fillings from morticians, proving that you can't take it with...
...must learn to do less with more," Fuller said concerning future energy policy. Fuller said this policy had worked in the incorporation of scrap metals by American industry and the use of half-ton satellites to process thousands of tons of data...
...says Philippe Garner, a Sotheby's photographic expert. Almost any object from the once scorned 19th century now seems as precious as Suez Canal Co. stock was in its heyday. Twenty years ago, a New York dealer reminisces, "people were giving away Victorian furniture for wood scrap." Today those otherwise indestructible pieces, long derided by the English as "chocolate" (they are Hershey brown), still cost less than glued-and-screwed contemporary furniture-but probably not for long: already a Victorian sleigh bed sells for as much as $30,000. Early American furniture, particularly colonial adaptations of Queen Anne, Chippendale...
...order to be successful," McLaughlin says, "we are gonna have to scrap." And scrappiness keeps coming up in the conversation. Translated, that means plenty of movement, tough presses and a fast break offense. And not many rebounds...
...freshmen sparked the team with their desire for the puck and their willingness to go into the corners and scrap. The defense, considered the pre-season questionmark, experienced a few rough moments but came back strong with two Mark Fusco goals; three bonecrunching Scott Sangster checks; and controlled, steady play from senior co-captain Graham Carter and sophomore Scott Powers...