Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's any reason for Fish's optimism, it's a change in the attitude of his players. Out is the confident Ivy-Leage-Championship-as-an-afterthought swagger of last season and in is a gritty determination to scratch and claw for every little inch of ground available. It's a change born not out of convenience so much as necessity...
...going to wait until spring this year. We're not going to start from scratch," says Julie A. Su, a member of the Coalition for Civil Rights...
...going to wait until spring this year. We're not going to start from scratch," says Julie A. Su, a member of the Coalition for Civil Rights...
...general. By going after women who work, they got at the elite Murphy Browns -- a small contingent -- but also snagged the middle- and working-class Roseannes, creating solidarity among both groups, who aren't confident enough in their new roles to take a presidential strike force with equanimity. Scratch the surface of any mother and she wonders if she is doing it right, whether she works full time, part time or not at all. A note from the teacher saying Junior is having trouble with long division can make a trial lawyer wonder if she should write briefs from...
Part of the answer is that neither candidate has been willing to start thinking about the military budget from scratch, to assess what America's defense requirements will be in a new world order and from there determine what force levels and structure would best meet those needs. Because both are reluctant to dismantle the world's greatest fighting machine, they are trying to calculate how much they will be obliged to cut rather than how much defense the nation really needs. Yet generations of military thinkers have agreed that the best way to find out what kind of defense...