Word: scrapingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small comfort to Terri Yates. Last year, working full time, she took home about $10,000 as a cabdriver. This year she expects to do better. But even with Terri working six-day weeks and her husband Philip driving a cab all seven days, they still can't scrape together a down payment on a house. Terri's 1985 Pontiac needs radiator and clutch work; Philip is still paying $160 a month on a 14-year-old Mazda pickup. "I'm making less money than ever in my whole life, and I'm working more," Terri says. "I have...
...beat the guy up in self-defense, and that he used his fists -- not a metal pipe, as charged. His family got in touch with Harvey A. Kaminsky, a seasoned trial lawyer in White Plains, New York, and even though Kaminsky agreed to lower his fees, they had to scrape together family loans to pay off the $15,000 it cost to bring the case to trial. For Lampropoulos, the lawyer employed a $50 an hour investigator to find witnesses. Other extras were simply too expensive. "With more money, we would have ordered a helicopter for an aerial view...
...succumbs to polemics--his characters speak in their individual voices. The play concerns Floyd's efforts to get to Chicago to take advantage of a recording offer that could bring him into his own. But he's got problems: fresh out of a stretch in the workhouse, he must scrape up the money for a new guitar and a bus ticket, and he has to persuade his friends Canewell, a harmonica player, and Red, a drummer, to accompany him. He wants to take his girl Vera with him too, but he has to convince her that he's changed...
...Televisa has dismissed 1,500 employees, or 6% of its work force, since December. ``Most people prefer to buy food rather than cigarettes,'' says Consuelo Docal de Rojas, who owns a struggling candy and tobacco shop in Mexico City and rents out apartments above the store. ``People can't scrape up cash to cover even necessities.'' At the same time, she adds, ``all my tenants are behind on their rent...
...intensive study of existing sites, are constantly giving archaeologists more information to work with. Also, dating techniques are becoming more refined. It used to be that scientists needed to test a large sample of paint to pinpoint its age. And, says anthropologist Margaret Conkey, "no one was willing to scrape a bison's rump off the wall." Now it takes only a tiny sample. French prehistory expert Arlette Leroi-Gourhan estimates dates by using pollen particles preserved on cave floors...