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DROP BY DROP, Video, 2009, Coastal Training Technologies.

To get rid of them, rub them with a simple paste of one tablespoon each of cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda to which you add lemon juice drop by drop until a paste is formed.

TRICKS of the TRADE: Tough marks on my sink

As the population increases and pollution remains rampant, the water on this planet becomes more valuable, drop by drop.

The science of water; concepts and applications, 2d ed

The sap dripped out of the tree and into the bucket, drop by drop.

Homemade maple syrup

Pouring into the valley as time trickles by drop by drop

OF DAYS GONE BY; YOUR SHOUT Reader's poem

You write of the numbness which our experience has produced in most of us, and I must say that while I was never completely numbed myself, I have had to rigidly control my thawing, allowing the liquid emotion to escape drop by drop through the trap doors of the things I write, lest I lose control; lest I be rendered incapable of warming our frozen brothers -- which all good writing must do.

Call-and-response: tracing the ideological shifts of Richard Wright through his correspondence with friends and fellow literati

Until then, I hope I learn from God's wisdom, which is everywhere, in the fullness of every day, a fullness that comes drop by drop to raised eyes, hearts, hopes and, for some, rears.

Accept what God offers. (Starting Point)

But if you put the same frog into an empty bucket and add the hot water drop by drop he will not notice but will just as surely die.

Illness and death of Hotel Dieu

Seeing your son or daughter, or brother or aunt, whomever, waste away because of the scourge of substance abuse is like watching life itself seep, drop by drop, toward the final step of death.

Human heartache: the other side of drugs

But drop by drop, refuse piled up, and reliable tenants began to drift away.

BLIGHT PROGRAM A CLEAN SWEEP; CNAP HELPS RID AREAS OF GANGS, DRUGS

This search for a missing part of himself reinforces his state of fragmentation "into seeing eyes, hearing ears, a beating heart, twitching nerves, and blood that was running out drop by drop.

Last Trolley from Beethovenstraat

On the contrary, it is more likely to be in the small, seemingly mundane decisions made daily at the low and middle echelons of management that our leadership will effect (or fail to effect), drop by drop, the necessary sea-change of attitudes and expectations.

Freedom or chaos? Dealing with change

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