Word: scraped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Like those troubled nations, Cambodia has been ravaged by civil strife. The poisonous aftermath still lingers in mine-strewn soil, where the nation's farmers scrape a living. One of the consequences is that there's no lack of amputees keen to strap on an artificial limb and hit a ball over a net. Since 2002, a wet-season disabled volleyball league has nurtured a squad of high-flying semipro athletes who came fourth at the 2005 World Cup in Canada and are gunning for gold on home soil. Christian Zepp, 26, the team's German coach who arrived...
...that the killer bug is alarmingly more widespread than anyone thought; that it's in your kids' locker rooms and at your gym. Stories abound of young high-school athletes becoming infected with MRSA and dying within weeks, and you're starting to worry about whether that nick or scrape you just got could be your last...
...stereoelectric theory, molecular orbital theory, organometallic chemistry, rotovapping, Sn2 reactions, enolation, bromination, Grignard reactions, and pi orbital conjugation, to name a few. WTF?! Students are expected to come out of this course with total comprehension of all theories of organic chemistry. In reality, most obtain just enough knowledge to scrape by on the MCAT. Overall: .001 Suicide Risk: 5 Primary Reason for Enrolling: Pre-med Primary Career Path Post-Course: Investment Banking SOCIAL ANALYSIS 10: PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS Course Description: Introduction to the basic principles and methods of economics. With almost four times the number of freshmen enrolled than upperclassmen...
...homefront remains on alert, but in a leisurely, one-eye-open kind of way. Police at the Pentagon scrape the air for signs of radiation or chemical attack, track the wind direction to guide escaping employees. But 9/11 Commission chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton used the anniversary to remind people that security remains a shield with holes. Most air cargo is still not screened, the high-tech bomb detectors are indefinitely delayed, and Congress demands tighter standards for drivers' licenses but won't fund them. The broadcast industry has until 2009 to turn over the spectrum that rescuers need...
...something they will have more problems in the future." The son of a friend, he says, was kidnapped and taken across the border to Peshawar, where he was held for a $30,000 ransom. It was eventually negotiated down to $16,000, which was all that the man could scrape together...