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'Nervy' Hammers must learn to plug the holes (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series) 8: 10am Thursday 3rd December 2009
unknown title 2009
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In case the blog owner chooses not to post my comment on the posting called "Nervy", here is what I wrote: "I’ve read both sides of the argument, and I’ve got to respectfully disagree with you.
In Defense of Nurse Ratched. Mother Jones RN 2007
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Yet recently in "Refurbished Reputation for a Nervy Painter," Holland Cotter in The New York Times, breaking with the usual assessments of his work, firmly demands that we take a second look, particularly at his later painting.
Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware Barbara Probst Solomon 2011
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Yet recently in "Refurbished Reputation for a Nervy Painter," Holland Cotter in The New York Times, breaking with the usual assessments of his work, firmly demands that we take a second look, particularly at his later painting.
Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware Barbara Probst Solomon 2011
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• Nervy times recently for the multitudes of senior managers at the BBC, as they awaited their first meeting with the new chairman, Lord Patten.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Then he went to Sheffield and played his first game in his second World Championship, which, after a wobbly – and duly tweeted – beginning "Nervy start but gotta take 5-4 powwow!!"
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Nervy enough to give her novel the lofty title "The Birth of Love," Kavenna is ambitious and inventive enough, finally, to earn it.
Book review: Valerie Sayers reviews 'The Birth of Love,' by Joanna Kavenna Valerie Sayers 2010
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My fave cafetorium misspelling was “Nervy Bean Soup”
Add a little gel… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Nervy credit investors are less likely to roll such debt without charging much higher interest rates for banks with weakened capital positions.
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"Nervy break-in last night at the Ministry of the Interior!"
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