Word: scratch
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...South African holdings, after faculty dissent, 10 years of campus protest and a general consensus on the question? Ignoring such ephemeral considerations may be well and good for the University, which one sage aptly described as being here forever, as opposed to the student body which is remade from scratch in perfect, four-year cycles...
Since Florida joined 27 other states and plunged into the lottery business last January, gamblers have plunked down more than $1 billion for lotto or scratch-off tickets, and the state has tucked away $350 million for its schools. Not everyone enjoys the boom, however. Merchants find the growing lines of ticket buyers a headache. Their annoyance was dramatized last week, following Florida's record $55.1 million payoff, when President James Kufeldt of Winn-Dixie Stores gave the state a month's notice that his 471 supermarkets are pulling out of the games. Swarms of ticket buyers were sometimes "impairing...
...invader can sometimes be eradicated by a special program that searches out and erases each bit of foreign material. Generally, however, the simplest way to bring an infected computer back to health is to shut it down, purge its memory and all its disks, and rebuild its files from scratch. Programs should be loaded from the original manufacturer's copy, and new disks should be carefully screened for the presence of an unwanted intruder. There are any number of products that will do this, usually by searching for files that are suspiciously long and may be harboring a virus...
...County board of supervisors advocated placing the homeless on a barge in Los Angeles Harbor. In El Paso last month, four billboards of unknown sponsorship sprang up: PLEASE DON'T GIVE TO BEGGARS -- THEY CAUSE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. El Paso City Representative Ed Elsey has received complaints that some panhandlers scratch cars with rocks or spit on the windshields if drivers refuse to give. "They are becoming more aggressive," says Elsey. "It is time for the city to get involved...
...drug- filled intertwining tunnels. When the sponges, which are as fine as dust, are rubbed on the skin, they squeeze out controlled bursts of sunscreen, local anesthetic, aftershave, insect repellent or antidandruff ingredients. Quips | A.P.S. Senior Vice President Martin Katz: "We're only beginning to scratch the surface." The next generation of drug-delivery systems is already on the drawing board: implantable microscopic mechanical devices, including gears and motors produced like computer chips...