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It introduced the West to a new source of political power--mass producers, before whom elected officials would need to bow and scrape.
Isolation and introspection, those staples of the Bildungsroman , scrape at young Coetzee's sensibilities, refining them raw.
Featured atrocities: Big shots have had to do without email or limos, and the conference exerts strategic entourage control, meaning that Mary Robinson, the U.N. commissioner for human rights, has had to scrape by with one personal assistant instead of her usual twelve.
To investigate these two processes, a small scrape wound was made across a confluent monolayer of primary dermal fibroblasts and the process of wound closure was monitored (Fig.
For those who persist in arguing that our politicians need salary increases, please note that according to the indictment, somehow Cisneros was able to scrape together a quarter of a million dollars for his girlfriend.