• Burgess found himself in the sin-bin after getting involved in a scrap initially sparked by Matt Petersen squaring up to Newton in the 32nd minute, but when he came back on shortly after the restart Bradford finally clicked.

    BBC: Bradford 24-10 Wakefield

  • Mr Kuchma himself won the presidency five years ago, running as a pro-Russian left-winger in a similar scrap against an unpopular but powerful incumbent who had also taken a solid lead in the first round.

    ECONOMIST: Ukraine and Georgia

  • In 1987, a scrap-scavenger in Brazil unwittingly cut up a canister containing cesium powder which he had stolen from an abandoned clinic: the resulting contamination left several people dead and 28 with radiation burns.

    ECONOMIST: How dirty bombs are made, and what they can do

  • So who is destined for the play-offs and who will end up in a relegation scrap?

    BBC: Guinness Premiership club-by-club guide

  • For Sunderland, it was yet another afternoon to forget and, despite Roy Hodgson's post-match words of encouragement, they are officially in a relegation scrap.

    BBC: Saturday football as it happened

  • So Nynex, hardly the most popular local telephone company in America, knew it was in for a scrap when it recently unveiled a plan to deprive some Manhattanites of their treasured 212 area code--arguably the only local telephone code that is recognised from Tokyo to Tomsk.

    ECONOMIST: The sexiest code on earth

  • The idea of closing down Sweden's nuclear industry emerged two decades ago, when a large majority of Swedes voted in a referendum to scrap nuclear power.

    ECONOMIST: Absurdly green

  • There was also little damage from the supply side as a dip in scrap and the swing to net de-hedging outweighed a modest rise in mine production.

    FORBES: Silver Institute: Silver Investment Rises In 2012 But Fabrication Dips

  • The chances had dried up for Villa too, however, and although Carew headed wide from Downing's corner in the first minute of the second-half, the game degenerated into a midfield scrap that was badly in need of a goal.

    BBC: Aston Villa 0-3 Chelsea

  • During Sir Edward's eight days in the witness box, he has insisted there was not a scrap of truth in the suggestion that he knew unarmed civilians could be caught up in shooting between IRA gunmen and British soldiers.

    BBC: Heath's barrister rejects allegations

  • Google's experience with Android, which has become the dominant operating system on new smartphones, shows it is not afraid of a scrap in the consumer arena.

    ECONOMIST: The web giant launches a rival to Apple��s iTunes

  • The messy Health and Social Care Bill, which passed a reading in the House of Lords after a noisy scrap this week, is not seen as the Department of Health's finest hour, for one thing.

    ECONOMIST: Shuffling mandarins: Goodbye to GOD | The

  • Voters in New Zealand are unlikely to scrap their voting system in a referendum on it next year.

    ECONOMIST: Lessons from abroad

  • In 1981, she bought a small dilapidated building in Cicero, a Chicago suburb, to serve as United Scrap's headquarters.

    FORBES: Entrepreneurs

  • Just plug in another floor, or scrap that project and plug in a 20-story condominium tower.

    FORBES: Justice Dept.'s S&P Suit Long On Chatter, Short On Substance

  • Although he is currently second in command at United Scrap, he started as a laborer in the yard and spent 20 years climbing up the ranks.

    FORBES: Entrepreneurs

  • 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.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Another Japan Airlines' 787 in Boston had to scrap a takeoff on Tuesday due to a fuel leak.

    CNN: A week Boeing would like to forget

  • There is also going to be a renewed interest in recycling scrap products.

    FORBES: Previous Post

  • SNH, which is involved in a trial reintroduction in Argyll, said it could not scrap something that did not exist.

    BBC: Beaver

  • The official announcement at the Welsh Assembly on Thursday follows a decision in Scotland to scrap 43 health trusts there and replace them with 15 health boards.

    BBC: Hutt scraps all health authorities

  • The House of Lords, already in a panic over the Labour government's plans to scrap it in its present form, hated the marquess for soiling its reputation.

    ECONOMIST: The Marquess of Bristol

  • Lee emigrated from Seoul to the U.S. in 1986, working in Atlanta as a business consultant and scrap metal exporter.

    FORBES: Chopsticks

  • The metals industry could see a greater increase in reclamation of scrap metal if collection of discarded products was improved, along with better designs to promote disassembly of products and using more modern recycling methodology.

    FORBES: INTERVIEW: Recycling Of Specialty Metals Needs Improvement - Yale Researcher

  • Later on, Lord Freud confirmed that the government would scrap a clause in the bill that would have prevented disabled people living in care homes from receiving payments designed to help with travel and transport costs.

    BBC: Government confirms welfare concession

  • In the lethal U.S. market, where makers scrap to gain a tenth of a point in market share, Nissan and its Infiniti luxury brand have picked up nearly two and a half points, rising to 6.3% since Ghosn took over.

    FORBES: The Impatient Mr. Ghosn

  • In September 2010, the government announced it would not back a pledge made by Labour to scrap parking charges in England's hospitals, saying the plan could not be justified.

    BBC: NHS hospital parking fee rises criticised

  • But a blunt announcement that the government was going to scrap thousands of jobs in the service would have risked a serious backlash, with the public backing the firefighters.

    BBC: Firefighters suspect a plot

  • The government should scrap a planned increase in fuel duty to help "hard-working, vulnerable Britons", a Conservative MP has said.

    BBC: MPs urge ministers to scrap a planned rise in fuel duty

  • Villa, who this time last week were in danger of being dragged into a relegation scrap, can now look at securing mid-table respectibility.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Premiership | Middlesbrough 1-3 Aston Villa

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