Scotland has regressed into an inward-looking, slightly chip-on-shoulder, slightly Anglophobic country with no clear sense of direction.
Her full lips were drawn back in a smile, one of her teeth slightly chipped.
The blue paint was slightly chipped and there was a bit of rust on it but it looked no worse than a number still in use.
Interspersed among tarnished spurs and sheriffs' badges and six spittoons — including a slightly chipped ceramic model designed for ladies — there were daguerreotypes and photographs of Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Lillie Langtry and tableaus of 49ers, Indian scouts and frontier executions.
White scrapes and black scuff marks lined part of the store's wall, and the wall was slightly chipped near a display window stocked with red mailboxes filled with letters and sparkly heart-shaped jewelry.
He also got his friend Belknap to accept changes in the design: a reduction in the letter height from two inches to one inch, all capital letters of uniform size, and slightly rounded edges, which would reduce spoilage of slabs that were slightly chipped before being set.
The yellow paint was slightly chipped, and the roof in a bit of disrepair.
The company will close a plant that produces analog computer chips from July 2 through July 23, and will briefly shut a slightly smaller chip plant from June 30 to July 7, a spokeswoman, Kim Quirk, said late Tuesday.
The Boss. [C12.] Blue-Chip Stocks Recover Slightly Blue-chip stocks finished higher as concern about the impact of rising interest rates eased and the market got a lift from news of stock buybacks by companies, including the drug producer Merck.
In combination with a higher actuator stiffness compared to the conventional actuator the output work that can be obtained is significantly increased at the expense of only a slightly larger chip area.
Third, we established that the peaks occurring near genes transcriptionally dependent on CEBPA, which were identified using the knockout mouse, had slightly stronger ChIP enrichments when compared with all TFBRs (p < 10−8).
