Word: scrapping
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...knowing about ROTC can mean the difference between having a comfortable college experience or having a comfortable college experience or having to scrap all the time and justbarely getting by," Baror said...
...years ago, a colleague and I asked Bill Clinton if he'd ever been in a fistfight. Yes, the President said, he'd been in a scrap in the eighth grade, when he was being hassled by a neighborhood bully who was smaller than Clinton but had been after him for some time. Clinton felt sorry for the boy--he had problems at home. Clinton didn't want to hit him and tried to ignore him. But one day, after being bothered by the boy for half an hour, Clinton hauled off and smacked...
Dikembe Mutombo has broken two noses in three games. Charles Barkley was fined $5,000 for "directing obscene language" at the Forum crowd. Steve Smith and Kendall Gill carried an on-court scrap into the tunnel at the Georgia Dome, earning each a $2,500 hit in the paycheck...
...Albanians. Despite threatening air strikes, NATO is reluctant to act because the fundamental political problem -- the Albanians' demand for independence and the Serbs' refusal to grant even the limited autonomy favored by the West -- remains unresolved. "The KLA rebels are spoiling for a new fight, and Milosevic wants to scrap the cease-fire he agreed to last year," says Calabresi. "Everybody's now seen that the West is loath to intervene, so all the pieces are in place for a bloody spring...
...wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed with steel. Fiercely competitive, obsessed with innovation and efficiency--he would unhesitatingly scrap a relatively new plant to erect a more modern one--Carnegie imported the Bessemer forced-air steel process to America. Such innovation permitted him to reduce the price of rails--the product that initially drove the industry--from $160 a ton in 1875 to $17 by 1900. His steel furnished...