Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...states, reports that earnings have grown 72% in the past year, from $5.1 million to $8.8 million, while revenues are up 15%, to $333 million. Chairman Alan Rosskamm attributes his company's new growth to a renewed interest in puttering around the house and making things from scratch. Sales at K mart were up 16%, to $7 billion, during the first quarter...
...just about to scratch TIME off my list when I received your note. Anyhow, here is the payment for my subscription. Show the boss that you earned your salt!" (Big smile...
...people who know that the Government goes haywire in a lot of respects. I'm fool enough to guess that the media would be the first one to know because you're looking at the HUD situation, you look at the IRS problems. Almost everything you scratch, there's a problem...
...having been endorsed by editors of a newspaper produced by death-row inmates at the state prison in Huntsville. With Mattox and Richards set to face each other again in a runoff election in April, the issue is sure to loom large. "Maybe the next step will be scratch-and-sniff ads, so voters can sample the smell of the death chamber," complains Richards' campaign spokesman Mark McKinnon...
Although the New Testament includes numerous mentions of satanic activity and exorcisms, liberal theologians have all but scratched Old Scratch. Father Richard McBrien, chairman of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame, dismisses the idea of a personal archdemon as "premodern and precritical." Individuals tend to personify evil, he explains, "because we see it in people." But for sophisticates acquainted with sociology and other disciplines, says McBrien, "sin is now seen as something systemic, institutional and structural, as well as personal." Laments William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist: "The devil has been soft-pedaled and de- emphasized...