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Examples
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Don't put these systems up on blocks and scavange them for parts 30 years later!
Do You Want a Space Shuttle For Your Museum? - NASA Watch 2008
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I've looked at many, many disciplines - it's hard not to when you want to create worlds - and I'll scavange anything I can of use from them.
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There was also a huge and wellknown scavange project by Iraq into Iraq and Kuwait to recover vehicles and ammo.
Firedoglake » Steel Cage Death Match: VandeHei vs. Shuster 2006
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Anybody can find or scavange for foodand water. richard long - 7/21/2009 10: 40: 20 PM EDT
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I come out, and then there are like 3 super mutants, which i was able to kill, and so i was able to scavange a missile launcher, a hunting rifle, and a nail board Who found this interesting?
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We woke up around 5: 00am and wandered around around trying to scavange for some food.
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Water in the fuel is controlled by draining it regularly out of the fuel tanks - and on the Boeing 777 a so-called "scavange system" pumps it out.
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Fri 07/28/06 11:53 PM i think the problem with actors like colin farrell are the bad choices they or their people make…there are only so many good films made in a year. only a handful of actors/actresses get first look at really great scripts and the rest have to scavange the crap that is left…perhaps colin has yet to find his niche? and alexander was a piece of garbage, nobody could have saved that film.
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postmen: on COUNTLESS numbers of time, we have had postmen leave parcels outside WITHOUT even knocking on the door. it gets worse, we have had LETTERS, yes FUCKING LETTERS that fit through the FUCKING mailbox left outside, for chavs to scavange upon or the wind to carry it on a mystery journey.
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-- or no doubt less if you can scavange up some spare parts.
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