| Natural resources are seen as a surer bet than painful recovery in beat-up car, aircraft and consumer-electronics factories. |
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| I smiled tightly and moved passed him, heading for the corner of the library that had a set of beat-up paperbacks that were generally good reads. |
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| Off he goes at the wheel of some beat-up white Nissan, sitting low on its springs from the cargo of artillery shells in the back. |
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| Blue-collar workers with beat-up bait casting rods might drop in to fish for a few hours in the evening before heading home. |
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| I'm wearing a pair of beat-up running shoes and wool socks, with just a T-shirt and shorts over my bike shorts. |
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| Jay grabs the beat-up green messenger bag and flings it the 5 feet into her awaiting hand. |
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| Lehder took one look at my clunky, beat-up old tape recorder and gave me a new one. |
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| The students enter the classroom noisily and take their places in groups of five or six at a series of beat-up tables. |
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| Eastwood plays Frankie, a wizened old fight trainer who runs a regulation beat-up gym. |
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| I'm talking about the revelation that I now had it within my power to hop in my beat-up hatchback and drive anywhere in North America. |
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| I didn't have it in 1960 because there's a beat-up old photograph of my room from then, with no sign of the rocker. |
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| Drake watched it from atop the watchman's truck, against the pole that held the beat-up and coppered bell. |
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| Although we're rattling our way along Dumbarton Road in nothing but a beat-up Ford Fiesta it really feels like we're out here cruising on the edge of the world. |
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| And yet, not only has the McConnell machine failed to shift into higher gear, it has sputtered worse than a beat-up jalopy. |
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| The Aussie would drive from audition to audition in her beat-up car, only to be shot down on the regular. |
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| That same day, Hanger pulled over a beat-up Mercury Marquis with no license plates cruising down a highway headed to Kansas. |
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| But not without that bike in front of me with a big jukebox to distract me from being a beat-up little kid. |
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| As the sun sets, a cluster of punks from Phoenix arrive in two beat-up vans. |
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| A one-time fishing village, it has a beat-up, raffish looking downtown surrounded by new, big marinas. |
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| Replace those beat-up panels with these new high-quality industrial strength plastic panels that feature original grain pattern and shape. |
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| A decrepit and beat-up building, in a poor neighborhood, far from everything, with no parking lot, etc. |
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| When I first registered for the plate around 1993, it was installed on a rather beat-up 1986 Toyota pickup. |
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| There'd been an old drifter who'd stopped by for lodgings with his ragged hat and scarf, everything he owned in a beat-up pack. |
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| He walks me to the street where a beat-up Toyota Corolla waits for us. |
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| In front of the couch there was a very beat-up wooden coffee table. |
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| He started by getting into his beat-up old car and driving around the city going through people's garbage looking for things he could fix up and sell. |
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| Maybe this was because he had worn flip-flops instead of his old beat-up sneakers, and his right one kept catching on the brake at every stop sign and red light. |
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| Rodney passed me a can of coke as I sat down on his beat-up sofa. |
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| Once I grew my eyebrows back and my sight and hearing started to return, I promptly traded it off for a beat-up 1918 production Government model. |
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| The beat-up old car speeds through, the driver not caring for the innocent children as he narrowly misses them all. |
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| On a steamy summer day he's sporting the jersey of his beloved football team, beat-up jeans and dreadlocks styled in a Mohawk gone awry. |
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| We were both quiet as I drove him to his beat-up Chevy parked by the stables. |
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| I hope you will like it and that my beat-up Muse will continue her frantic coition for a few weeks more. |
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| One of the pilots I was working with let me use his flight bag in the movie, so I carried that old, beat-up thing. |
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| These are vital prerequisites for producing start-mark free fabrics by guaranteeing the full dynamics of reed beat-up on the first pick, thus eliminating start-marks at their source. |
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| A newly developed deflection nozzle takes up the thread after reed beat-up so that the stretching nozzle remains free for the next filling insertion. |
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| Graham Collins subtly alters old, beat-up boards. |
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| Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. |
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| Picture a beat-up old station wagon or conversion van long past its prime. |
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| You can learn the difference between a peavey and a scribner, and can check out the beat-up logging boat in the backyard. |
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| Orbiting over the airport, he undertook a series of flight tests which included stalls, feathering and restarting each engine, and a beat-up on the field. |
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| In front of it stood a beat-up stove on top of which sat a shoulder of pork braising in hot manteca. |
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| His daughter had attended an information meeting, and loved it on the spot because of the scuzziness of the student lounge, the awful curtains, the beat-up furniture. |
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| Rather, I've come to the diplomatic conclusion that intentionally beat-up production simply complements bands who are bent on re-examining time-worn musical ideas. |
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| His total assets then represented a beat-up van and a few boxes of cheap trainers, which he sold to small, independent sports shops in towns across the north of England. |
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| He's wearing torn khaki shorts and beat-up tennies, without socks. |
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| A NEW WRINKLE promises to breathe new life into any beat-up old handset. |
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| Best friends Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau pile into their beat-up old car and hightail it for Sin City. |
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| She slung her beat-up hockey skates over her shoulder and headed for the ice rink. |
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| It ranges from beat-up Winnie the Pooh dolls to sparkling scooters to antique sofas, said Omar Elkassir, co-owner of the Web Corner in Woodland Hills. |
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