Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BASKETBALL Taking away a man's living just for refusing to slouch and scratch himself like everyone else...
...resisted the initial impulse to scratch it out because I knew it had to be investigated," Moran said...
...YEAR FROM NOW, WHEN Steve Forbes' accountant totals up his client's 1996 spending, he may just scratch his head over what Mr. Forbes got for his money. Well, for one thing, when tassel-loafered ad buyers climb the gangway of the Highlander, the Forbes Inc. yacht, they will probably think they're hobnobbing not with the shy, bespectacled son of a legendary hot-air-balloon-flying publisher but with a once and perhaps future presidential candidate. Forbes made the Oedipal analogy himself last week when he said, with a smile, that if he won the Connecticut primary, "I wouldn...
...foreign-language placement examinations placed first-years in appropriate, required foreign-language courses. Rarely did secondary-school course-work enable a student to "test out" of a foreign-language study: doing brilliantly on the test meant either entering advanced courses or entertaining the option of starting another language from scratch. Depending on concentration, an undergraduate might find himself or herself continuing in a foreign language, or studying a related one, every term until graduation...
...number of media conglomerates or resting on his laurels with a fat production deal somewhere--the traditional way in which Hollywood takes care of its own. Instead, at 54, Diller has chosen to put his credibility on the line and build his very own empire more or less from scratch. "This is either a worthwhile or worthless proving ground," he says, though it is not quite self-evident, of his efforts to cobble together a new broadcast TV network from a collection of end-of-the-dial stations that in total reach roughly 35% of the country's viewing audience...