Its end may signal the decline of one of Detroit's few thriving industries: the sale of scrap salvaged or stolen from the city's many empty houses and businesses.Motown has always had scrap-metal dealers the car industry bends a lot of metal.
Through its highs and lows, civilization has always included a scrap trade, and, unlike the arts and sciences, the scrap business has thrived in times of both darkness and enlightenment.
And for a franchise that has always done best when scrapping for respectability — ask Thomas and Camby, members of the team that, last century, made the unlikely run from the eighth seed to the finals — this bunch of scrappers represents the most likable group that beleaguered fans have seen in a long time.
For the Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana, inspiration has always lurked in unlikely places: scraps of wood, plush stuffed animals, plastic tubing, even bundles of castoff cardboard.
That latter fact has always seemed the most salient scrap of knowledge about Tom Waits's much mythologised background ("I was conceived one night in April 1949 at the Crossroads Motel in La Verne, amidst the broken bottle of Four Roses, the smouldering Lucky Strike, half a tuna salad sandwich…" and so on).
Williams said scrapping to get by has always been a reality for Marquette.
In the steel industry the biggest problem has always been that we've had scrap metal dealers for millennia but no one could quite make auto steel out of that scrap.
I have seldom, as an adult, felt that religion provided consolation (for every scrap of that, there has always been the two of agitation), but I have felt it added a heightening, an intensity, to everyday experience".
The page has always had its critics, all of whom were presumably thrilled to hear that Rupert Murdoch is thinking of scrapping the naked ladies in favour of "glamorous fashionistas".
France has always welcomed Mr. Serra, even before he became iconic, in the days when some of his work in America was dismantled for scrap.
