Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what has happened to her body. She knows what happened to her mind. She knows what happened to her soul. She knows it HURT. And it is inexcusable that someone, for whatever reason, thought it was okay to hurt her that way. It is also inexcusable and disrespectful to scratch up her tender, healing wounds by attempting to rewrite her life. Whatever you say cannot undo the crime which occurred. An attempt to understand her story would have been a fine and admirable thing. An attempt to obliterate it is a crime in itself...
...needs. Modifying cars to run on CNG is much easier than adapting them to electric power: through replacement of the carburetor and fuel system, existing autos can be converted to burn CNG at a cost of about $2,000. Carmakers can build CNG-fueled vehicles from scratch without major retooling. GM plans to manufacture about 1,000 pickup trucks that run on natural gas this spring, its first such vehicles...
...Assad's strengthening of his influence over Lebanon and would urge the Israelis to acquiesce in Syria's control as well. As a result, says a U.S. official, the task of persuading Syria to join the anti- Iraq coalition was easier because "we didn't have to start from scratch." Of course, there's still the little matter of the several hundred Christian militiamen who were wiped out as the Syrians eliminated the last remaining major resistance in Lebanon...
...irony was that Malcolm never had a scratch while Dr. King experienced the contrary," said Haley...
...chemical fiddling was enough to clear up the difficulty. Ingber and his colleagues synthesized from scratch in the laboratory an artificial likeness of fumagillin with all the tumor-suppressing capability, but without the side effects. The drug is known chemically...