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...just that. Again and again, they brushed aside Republicans who insisted that they should scrap the legislation that they have been working on for more than a year and start all over again. Americans, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "don't have time for us to start from scratch. Many of them are at the end of the line...
...Spanish speaker from her time in Chile and Cuba, Marques initially struggled to learn Portuguese and devoted most of her time to her studies. In high school, she earned a scholarship enabling her to attend the United World College in New Mexico, where she learned English from scratch...
...Four of our six players are playing out of position,” Baise said. “They haven’t practiced or trained to play there. It’s essentially starting from scratch...
Danz: The algorithm is over 10 years old. It's got 10 years of experience with the Harvard student body under its belt. We have made some modifications to it throughout the years; this year we actually did decide to write something new from scratch. We're still deciding whether to use it. The old algorithm in the past has not ensured bidirectional matching. We don't want it to be unfortunate like that, so we're exploring the possibility of building pairs...
Danz: We [the Harvard Computer Society] rewrite them from scratch every year. Last Saturday, we got 10 of us together to try to think of funny stuff. We try to have a good balance of geeky humor, general Harvard humor, and some things that mostly relate to real relationships. We make sure the questions are funny because we want the experience of completing Datamatch to be funny...