Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps said his party would scrap Hips - home information packs - if they won the next election.

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But visiting those facilities, seeing the work that so many of you do, seeing these old weapons once aimed at us now being turned into scrap truly brought home how important this work was.

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Now home for both men is a scrap car, where they are allowed to stay with the permission of the owner.

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Colin Drane recalls a crime spree that unfolded near his home in Baltimore a few years ago just as scrap metal prices were on the rise: Copper downspouts were disappearing.

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A's manager Bob Melvin had to scrap his normal postgame routine just to get home in time to catch a few hours of sleep before returning to the ballpark.

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Even the money he wants to spend on a new home for the Yankees is from a tax on companies that he had promised to scrap.

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The typical at-home trader is still more like Jack Scheib, a 63-year-old scrap metal broker in Dallas who took up serious options trading three years ago, and who I was set to feature in a story about retirees who are trading.

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But there has been no promise yet to scrap more stringent requirements, introduced in September last year, for borrowing for a second home.

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Bush topped this off with a pre-emptive concession: agreement to exchange warm ranch- and-home visits, for which Putin was eager, even before any progress was shown in agreement to scrap the old ABM treaty.

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