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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Gore Vidal

If it decides to scrap the policy, I think investors will see that as a signal to buy stocks. But if the BOJ decides to postpone ending the policy until its next meeting in April ... there will be disappointment.

Toru Otsuka

A petition to scrap the contracts would take energy away from getting an agreement and impede further progress.

Clyde Sims

We've had aluminum railings from bridges and manhole covers taken for scrap, but we've never seen anything of this magnitude before.

Steve Pageau

I like him very much, ... He's a good guy, a fighter and a scrapper. He has to continue to fight and scrap and stay healthy.

Jim Otto

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Graham Greene

There is no identification of the car after it's been crushed. What they're doing is taking it to the shredder, the car's being shredded and resold as scrap.

Robby Delcastillo

We have a ton of respect for Steubenville Central. They play the game of football as hard as they can and you know they are going to scrap for 48 minutes.

John Magistro

Commodity prices are rising, quite dramatically for copper, tin and steel scrap. That would not happen if there was an expectation of a slowdown.

James Paulsen

It's a lot of educated guesses. On the scrap side of this business, they are horse traders.

Ray Wahlert

You're not going to make any money stealing a DVD player. There are scrap-metal places all over any metropolitan area, and they don't ask a lot of questions.

Roger Richards

I'm feeling good and I'll be ready tomorrow. I've got to scrap this one and forget about it.

Ron Villone

We've got a lot of work to do. Frankly, I think you have to scrap the appropriations package if you're going to do tax cuts. ... It just doesn't work.

Robert Genuario

The price declines will come from improved domestic supply along with lower scrap and metallic costs.

John Anton

We're scraping together some good finishes here.

Brendan Gaughan

We want to give them to people who want to live in them rather than sell them for scrap metal.

Bereket Selassie

He's the master, ... It's admirable. I watch him with my mouth open and think, 'How does he do it?' If I could only have a scrap of that. If only I could take all filters off my mouth, it would be so great.

Stephen Colbert

They have great guards who hustle and scrap.

Gary Hull

I was going through my scrap book and I couldn't do nothing but to cry because I had all kinds of pictures of her in there.

Stephanie Jones

What we had on site was over 120 unlicensed cars and several piles of scrap metal outdoors on the property.

Wayne Sorensen

I thought the lads were fantastic in the second-half. At half-time I wanted to know who could scrap, and they all responded well.

David Hodgson

The two had entered India from Bangladesh six months ago and disguised themselves as scrap dealers.

Karnail Singh

The decision to scrap [their systems] and go to something with the efficiency they need is out of the question.

Don Morrison

It would be criminal to scrap it, absolutely terrible.

Frank Braynard

No outside contractor would've done that job [the way we did], because we spent so much time scraping down old layers of paint-there must've been 10. We spent two and a half of the four weeks on the project scraping paint.

Harry Schmidt

If Patrick starts the match, I will understand completely. I have only just come back from injury . . . and he has a good understanding with Cris. But I really want to play against AC Milan. It will be a hell of a scrap.

Claudio Cacapa

We've been scraping a couple of wins out. But, in the long run, we're not going to be able to win without limiting our turnovers, and we know that.

Amy Denson

Every single scrap of information we get is important to us. ... Something's out there that we still need.

Richard Eaton

I don't think anything has changed. We are still going to fight and scrap for everything.

Richard Hill

I couldn't tell you why I had success on the road. I try to do the same thing I do every time out no matter where I am at. I just need to give my defense the chance to make plays behind me and if they do that we will be alright. Pitching and defense are the keys because I know our offense can find a way to scrap out a few runs.

Bryan Henry

I want the government and the Bank of Japan to thoroughly discuss and then decide (when to scrap the quantitative easing policy).

Hiroshi Okuda

There are so many emotional stories in our lives that the cameras missed outside of the competition, which viewers never got to see. This online 'scrap book' gives us a chance to share the entire journey leading up to, and during the Games to really illustrate the ups and downs an athlete and their mom's experience along the road to becoming a U.S. Olympian.

Vonetta Flowers

We are looking at various possibilities as to how the device got there, including that it was picked up by people looking for scrap.

Captain Mali Govender

We call upon the Indian Ministry of Environment to scrap their decision to allow this ship to come to India.

Ramapati Kumar

I was pleased with our fight. Part of the process of learning to win is learning to scrap.

Sharon Fanning

Scrap has always been a good indicator, because it feeds directly into consumer spending and capital spending. If scrap steel is rising sharply, it's a good indication that things overall are picking up. It's an old, trusted standby and it should not be ignored.

Don Fine

By December 2006 we intend to scrap the 10 000 oldest taxis in South Africa.

Jeff Radebe

We came out the exact opposite way I thought we would and dug ourselves a hole early, but we were able to scrap back and got the job done. We got a lot of contributions from a lot of different people and have a team capable of making runs. A lot of it is sparked by our defense, and when we decide to guard people, we can be pretty good.

Scott Hyland

We have seen a substantial increase in the cost of our raw materials, especially coking coal, iron ore pellets and scrap.

Davinder Chugh

There still remains a big area that has a lot of overgrown vegetation, the fence is in disrepair and there are barrels and scrap metal and wood on the property.

Justin Murphy

They were just serving the lights out of the ball. We had to scrap and fight for everything in that first game.

Saundra Hess

There's much more efficient use of materials [in prefab] than in site-built construction. Go by any construction site and you'll see enormous scrap wastes getting thrown into Dumpsters.

Michael Sylvester

Naturally we've talked about giving him a more direct feed because right now he is scraping the Citizen ICAM Web site every day. We are more than willing to work with him or anybody else that is doing anything innovative.

Jonathan Lewin

These guys fight and scrap for every game. This team does all the things that, as a coach, you enjoy.

Jim Page

In an environment where mine supply is broadly static, central bank sales effectively constrained and scrap supply declining, strong physical demand is genuinely important.

John Reade

Anybody interested can help. We need woodworking, metalworking and paint scraping. The more community involvement the better it will be.

Harold Mentzer

I am proud of the way this team has fought and scrapped so far, and I hope they continue to fight and scrap the same way. We started both games well today, but we need to learn to finish them the same way.

Chad Mckelvey

He was playing great and I just had to scrap my way back into it, ... I have no idea how I did it.

Tommy Robredo

We know that subs have to contribute. You have to come in and scrap the boards and do whatever you can.

Jake Bauer

Some of the other ones, the equipment is very expensive and hard to get a hold of. Typically you would do a soil scraping. But, we wanted something that was non-evasive.

Dale Flatt

I gave the orders to salvage it, ... I think that whistle belongs to the citizens of Canton. I didn't want it going to a scrap yard for brass.

Don Edwards

Everything that had any monetary value at the time of wrecking was carted away and sold for scrap, Salvage anything you can because this is history here and we're going to lose it.

Frank G. Winiarski

It's not humanly possible to have every piece of plastic and scrap of treated wood out of the waste.

Paula Clark

To top it off, the Bank is asking these countries to keep making non-refundable debt payments to the Bank instead of using the funds to fight poverty, HIV/AIDS, and now avian flu in Africa. We call on the US Executive Director and the World Bank's Board to do the right thing and scrap these delays when they meet on Thursday.

Neil Watkins

The building is going to be completely renovated so people may want to come and see it one last time, especially the antique elevator, which is going to be cut up for scrap.

Skip Otto

Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap metal.

Gerald Anderson

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters: Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast You keep a record true Of every kind of p.

Ambrose Bierce

Anything over two unlicensed vehicles, unusable machinery parts or scrap metal is considered a junkyard in an agricultural zone.

Wayne Sorensen

Relations with many of our oldest friends are, quite frankly, scraping the bottom right now.

Joseph Biden

We're scraping the bottom of the bottom so this was amazing. We're not thinking title -- Bayern is in a different league. The fans can dream though.

Thomas Doll

It has been a wonderful experience. He is very much the perfectionist fabricator. Because we think the same about how we approach our work, I can turn things over to Ben without having to nail down every last scrap of detail.

Jan Svec

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

Pablo Picasso

Crafting has always offered a social element. But I've noticed that within the last four years, I'm hearing more about the all-night scrap parties, the retreats and the cruises. More people are exposed to it, and it's just more fun to do with other people.

Kristin Degnan

I'm very happy with where we're at right now. We've found a way to scrap out a couple of close wins to start league play and the kids feel confident. We're not scaring people or blowing anyone out, we're just finding ways to win close games and if we can continue to do that, we'll have a chance.

Larry Hadley

You would think that with their costs going up and prices going up, you wouldn't make much more money or would do a little worse, ... But in reality, there has been a very, very strong correlation: The higher the scrap goes, the more money they make. It just means the market is better overall.

Charles Bradford

They prevent you from running your style of offense. We had to kind of scrap our main offense and just try to play basketball.

Joe Miles

We expected it to be a battle, and it was. You just don't beat Dave Loos' teams easy. You have to fight and scrap. ... We have a lot of respect for the Austin Peay program. It's a great win for us.

Steve Payne

Unfortunately the ICAM site doesn't provide an RSS feed or any other sort of data-export capability, so my program does screen scraping, which is essentially retrieving a Web page and programmatically 'reading' the page to grab the data.

Adrian Holovaty

Doubles has always been a big focus of ours. We feel like if we can scrap up the doubles point somehow that we're going to be a really tough team to beat. It has been a real momentum boost for us in the last few matches.

Tony Bresky

Berryville is so good. We had to scrap for everything we got tonight.

Vic Rimmer

As far as we are concerned, it can legally be considered as scrap.

Martin Besieux

The central bank could scrap the way it automatically determines the closing rate of the yuan and determine it on its own.

Yu Yongding

A thicker layer of ice requires some manual labor, so we tested the latest ice scrapers. We did this by freezing water to the bottom of the pan and then scraping that ice off with the ice scrapers we were testing.

Jeremiah Driansky

We believe in giving a doctor rehabilitation rather than throwing him on the scrap heap.

Andrew Dix

We're getting real good pitching and we're starting to be able to execute and scrap a few runs out. We're finding ways to score runs, sometimes, when we really need them.

Mike Godfrey

They had to scrap the 2021 (bond sale) completely, likely due to the market being jittery on higher Treasury yields.

Gautam Jain

He didn't want to see it wind up on a scrap pile.

Lanida Frizzo

All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just scrap. If you just watch the game you can gloss over Trey's hustling plays.

Gene Ammirante

If no one wants to use it, then scrap it.

Gary Gilbert