It did not help that he had run (unsuccessfully) as a Republican for Congress in the 1980s, had moved to Florida only two years ago and keeps getting into scrapes involving his 145-foot yacht and assorted tabloid celebrities.

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Germany only just scrapes into the top third of European Union members.

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The Net is bringing collecting directly into the living room (see " Net Scrapes").

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The oil mill scrapes off the tiny fuzzy bits with microscopic saws and turns them into big bundles of fuzz to be sold.

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