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And they all tick off examples of its extremities.
A species of tick, the animal that Pliny the Elder called one of the foulest and nastiest creatures that be should be known to most residents of the northeast coast of the US, because Ixodes dammini , the deer tick, is the vector for another dreadful animal--the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi , which causes borreliosis Lyme (disease)--the fastest-growing infectious disease in the US after AIDS.
Clinton's and Barak's remarks were brief and cordial, the papers agree, but then Shara used his remarks to tick off at some length a list of Syria's grievances against Israel.
Office workers function by the tick of the clock, watching the minutes pass, while farmers live by the season, marking time with the twice yearly harvests.
2 million Americans reported having used an illegal drug during the previous year, up a tick from 11.