Word: scrapingly
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...ruler Pervez Musharraf, the National Assembly chose Zafarullah Jamali as Prime Minister, the first since a 1999 military coup. Losing candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi claimed Musharraf used threats and bribes to persuade some assemblymen to switch sides. A last-minute waiver of rules forbidding party defections allowed Jamali to scrape through on a single-vote majority. Although he has the dictator's backing, Jamali's government is expected to be hamstrung by opposition from anti-Musharraf parties. INDONESIA On the Case Police said they had captured the "mastermind" behind last month's Bali bombing in which at least 190 people...
...utilities and health insurance, I have ?30 left in my pocket," says Diaz, who's looking for a second job. "That's not even enough to buy my daughter a pair of sneakers." Maria is part of Switzerland's growing population of working poor, people who barely manage to scrape by in one of the world's wealthiest nations. Lately social groups, trade unions and left-leaning political parties have brought the poverty problem to public attention. But coherent statistics are hard to come by. Because the country has historically had so few poor, "we have no tradition of gathering...
...Well,” began Teddy, “you just have to get a pair of tweezers, pick the skin around a bit, dig in [the wound] a little, sort of scrape at it and the glass eventually comes loose.” Oh, yes, it’s that simple...
...across America, radio listeners whose knuckles scrape the floor are slumping even lower. The nationally syndicated Opie & Anthony Show, starring frat-boy jokers ANTHONY CUMIA and GREGG HUGHES, was yanked off the air last week. Its home station, New York City's WNEW-FM, announced the decision after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began an inquiry provoked in part by an incident in which, complainants alleged, the hosts encouraged a tourist couple to have sex in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral and broadcast the event live. When the show was canceled, one of the most high-profile offended parties...
...there anything in life more comfortably certain than a comic strip? In the first two panels, our hero gets into a scrape, in the last panel something funny happens, and then you're free to get busy solving the Jumble. But Lynda Barry's comic strips work backward: you laugh at the first few panels, and the last panel leaves you feeling sadder and wiser...