The buyer is starting over, and is no better off than someone who just takes a name, starts from scratch and runs with it.

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That's a lot of scratch for a 13-year-old who just wants to hack the ball around with his friends.

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Of course, this is just a dream if it means starting from scratch.

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The duds will not even scratch a living, with just a couple of ill-paid fights a year.

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But staff members have also worked on building a personal bicycle from scratch, a baby crib, and an electric vehicle, to name just a few.

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There wasn't a single scratch or ding, and the touchscreen was just as responsive as ever.

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"The idea was really for us to just start a company with a blank slate and solve a problem from scratch, " said Mr. Jacobs.

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Most traditional mixes just taste like plain tomato juice or if a bartender makes it from scratch, they tend to go overboard with one ingredient or another.

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It was only a scratch, said Mr. Shaw, adding that his son was just trying to "play hooky" from class.

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Adding Biogen Idec would graft labs in California and Massachusetts to this just-created construct, or else shift them into a parallel research and development operation Pfizer is just starting to build from close to scratch out of San Francisco.

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