Word: scrapingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...competed for attention in my young brain: the fact that I'd somehow aced Algebra, and the sneaking (yet perennially inaccurate) suspicion that this would be the year I finally filled out my tankini. Ahead of me lay nothing but two months of unstructured time in which to but scrape my knees, freckle my nose, and lust after whatever three-named hunk was starring in that year's summer blockbuster...
...Even if the bill does pass, the trade will continue, Bohannon insists: "If they shut it down, they will force it underground." Mead agrees, and notes that despite rules at California's maximum security Pelican Bay prison limiting prisoners' access to artist materials, art flourishes; prisoners scrape the colors from magazine ads and use manila envelopes as canvases. Donny Johnson, a well-known Pelican Bay artist, dissolves M&M candy for his colors and uses a paintbrush made from his own hair...
...parents scrape together the €3,840-a-year fees? Because they want to give their kids a better chance to move up eventually in French society. The school - which takes elementary students to baccalaureate and vocational training - has earned a glowing reputation among universities and companies recruiting trained workers. Its director says almost all youths leave the school with a diploma or professional training certificate, and estimates around 90% of those who receive occupational training find jobs within six months. That's no small boast in an area where unemployment ranges from 25-40%. "You work harder here...
...venture to say that Ernesto Cacialli of Pizzaiolo del Presidente, named in honor of former U.S. President and Cacialli pizza fan Bill Clinton, makes the best pizza in Naples, which would also imply the best pizza in the world. He makes the classic thin, crusty Neapolitan pizza with a scrape of smashed tomato and choice of toppings - as do hundreds of other places in town. The most iconic are the margherita (tomato, buffalo mozzarella and basil) and marinara (tomato, garlic, oregano and olive oil). The difference is in Ernesto's wrist: dough-stretching technique is critical. Even his son Luigi...
...shallow-minded alumni booster organizations that donate their own, tax-deductible millions - making sure the jocks sleep in five-star hotels on the road while engineering majors back on campus scrape by to pay skyrocketing tuitions - only affirm that warped culture. The booster clubs and athletic departments counter that university classrooms and non-major sports benefit from the football and basketball riches...