Less than two months after scraping back into power, they now trail the opposition Christian Democrats by 14 percentage points.

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After scraping by, Rollhaus came back to the States to try his hand at venture capital.

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In a dream last night, my father, dead since 1997, was scraping the NRA sticker off the back window of his SUV.

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However, if you value a quieter, more contemplative life, one punctuated only by the scraping of chairs after a leisurely lunch and the wind rustling through the lavender fields, a few miles back from the coast lies the picturesque village of Vidauban.

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