The Field Museum is so strapped for cash that administrators are threatening to scrap various branches of scientific research.
"Ten years ago the consultants said to us that we had to scrap our branches and go straight to the internet," says Alfredo Sáenz, the chief executive of Santander, a big Spanish bank.
"The master planners observed we had interesting staff gardens that should be open to the public," Marianne Kristoff, the supervisor of gardens, said, leading the way through a maze of trellises built from scrap wood, branches and twigs.
Fearing further attacks, government security forces had erected roadblocks, using old tires, scrap metal, and branches.
So it's a little bit weird for a guy who's terrified of super-intimidating executive branch underlings to simultaneously suggest that the executive branch scrap all the Constitutional checks on its power.
Born in India but brought up in London, they started in local scrap metal but branched out into trading tin and aluminium.
Over the months the shelters built from branches, scraps of recovered wood and corrugated iron will spread around Wilson's new home.
The L.I.R.R. now runs only six trains to and from Montauk most weekdays, and two a day to and from Greenport; last year, the railroad considered scrapping the two branches entirely to help close a budget shortfall.
(Johnson) DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD Ms. Butterfield continues to make horses out of weathered branches and scrap steel that are, at best, magically lifelike.
One of the most contentious proposals, put forward by five local branches, would scrap a rule put in place when the party was fighting the hard-left Militant group in the 1980s.
Not only are there six giant horns emerging from six different parts of the planet and threatening to burst it apart, but the evil Quintessa is flinging a planetoid a gargantuan bundle of scrap metal, kudzu, tree branches, and random organic crud at Earth.
