Word: scrapping
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...from dollar slides; and earthquakes may not destroy the U.S. We may forget that Super Bowls are played on the Sabbath, but as surely as God is holy, judgment falls on a nation whose sexual promiscuity and sex perversion is a way of life. As America arrives on the scrap heap of nations, Sodom and Gomorrah will ask: What took you so long...
Jane Langton, author-illustrator of "The Memorial Hall Mystery," said Tuesday she considered it a challenge to incorporate "every scrap" of the 100-year-old building into the mystery...
...closed-door sessions around a huge octagonal table, beneath the gaze of portraits of past presidents. The participants-members of the Yale Corporation, Yale University's august board of directors-breathe not a word about their deliberations. There is even an executive secretary who vigilantly collects every scrap of paper after each meeting, carries them home and carefully burns them in his fireplace...
...revised version authorizes the President to scrap the 4% jobless target if necessary to keep inflation from rising rapidly-a signal to wary businessmen that the Administration is serious about holding prices down...
...critique of American Jewish intellectual reaction only highlights the chief problem that Patterson perceives in the continuing fashionability of ethnic loyalty--that ethnic subcultures are now acting as political interest groups in the increasingly competitive scrap for America's, and the world's, shrinking social and physical resources. Drawing on his classification of ethnicity prototypes, Patterson notes that this politically revolutionary trend is inherent in the nature of what he labels "the revivalist ethnic group." Ruthlessly pursuing his argument, he summarizes the phenomenon by arguing that...