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But building a university from scratch is far from cheap.
Paula Jones' decision to accept Insight magazine's invitation to President Clinton's speech at the swanky White House Correspondents' Dinner makes Stuart Taylor (NBC's Meet the Press ) scratch his head.
She doesn't compare the reverse; that is, installing Windows from scratch on a machine with Linux pre-installed on it.
It is one thing to read up on, say, current French policy for the airliner industry, and to start from scratch.
On the foreshore near the Bat Cave, a few people scratch a living by harvesting salt.