Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meat dish, and a vegetarian dish. They've added more vegetables and the salad's bar twice as long as it used to be." Vicky's favorite food in the dining hall is soup. "They make good soups. Someone in the main kitchen makes the soup from scratch the day before and they freeze it in bags." Dining hall employees used to have the summers free, but now Vicky works during the summers. While Vicky used to receive a fractional unemployment salary, she now works from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. for most of the summer...
Sometimes, a particular style is made in multiple factories, which could be located in different countries, he says. Moreover, he says factories do not assemble clothing from scratch, but instead get parts from other factories...
...weapons. Since then, according to Pentagon reports, American pilots have flown close to 12,000 missions, dropped some 1,200 bombs on nearly 300 targets and destroyed 139 anti-air artillery guns, 28 radars, 13 mobile surface-to-air missile launchers and 22 command sites--all without a single scratch on American property. For the most part, the Iraqis lie low and launch a flurry of flak, hoping to down a warplane and deliver a live pilot to Saddam. "If you're looking at the right place at the right time, you can see the muzzles flash," says Captain Brian...
...what you did." He'd blush and change the subject. You are born with three things: intelligence, endurance and the opportunity to build integrity. You decide how much intelligence and endurance you are going to use. You build integrity every single day with the choices you make. I would scratch my head if someone asked me to give them a choice John made that was bad, that produced inferior integrity. And I find myself wondering what life will be like without John Chafee...
That, says Lifset, is where nanotechnology plays a role. In this emerging field, which employs just about every kind of scientific and engineering discipline, researchers expect to create products by building them from scratch, atom by atom, molecule by molecule. This bottom-up nanotechnological way of making things differs from the traditional drilling, sawing, etching, milling and other fabrication methods that create so much waste along...