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a short erect tail

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La vremea culesului, taranii din imprejurimile Caracalului vor recolta scut antiracheta" [You already know the other seven (the graveyard on the Resurrection Street, the prison on the Liberty Street a.s.o.) The eighth wonder is done right now, in front of us: the Americans are planting sacks of dollars.
degree in Communication and Information System from South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China, in 2004.
Chaetotaxy: prpl setula absent, 1 strong postsutural dc, often with 1 shorter seta anterior to this, acrs not differentiated from other scutal setulae, between dc lines in 8-12 rows with 2-4 distinct prscut; 1-2 pprn, 1 posthu, 2 ntpl, 1 distinct pra behind transverse scutal suture; 1 sa and 1 long pa, 1 short post ia, 2-4 pairs of marginal scut setae; sometimes with setulae on disc; anepisternum with 1 strong seta directed backwards at middle of posterior margin, katepisternum with 1 strong seta at upper posterior corner, each with a variable number of short setulae in front; tuft of numerous, fine, long setulae at ventral aspect of katepisternum.
He works weekends, consumed by constant demands to do scut work like "put new cover sheets on the TPS reports."
Once it has feelings, will we feet guilty about making it do all the scut work, and start cleaning up before the robot comes in, and apologizing for the mess?
Well, a decade has passed, yet it seems like just yesterday I was doing scut work as an intern.
Now, after each MAP meeting, a scut list--similar to what I used during residency--is created containing the tasks, the one person responsible and a timeline for action.
As institutions gain experience in instituting systems of care delivery that do not depend upon a single individual being in place for 36 hours at a stretch, and as programs gain experience in developing resident-scheduling strategies that minimize scut work, prevent redundancy, and maximize educational experience both in and out of the operating room, we will begin to see more clearly what 80 hours a week can buy for us in terms of training and patient care.
Soon, we discovered that those long days without rest were molding our psyches into those of surgical robots whose primary responsibilities were providing wound care and surgical assistance, identifying surgical illness, and of course, completing student-oriented surgical scut work with a smile.
If Clancy must farm out the scut work of actually writing, he should have the wit to hire a ghostwriter with a better sense of how to organize a book.
I was usually the more visible leader (society was even more sexist then), but it was Bonnie who did much of the scut work.
Across the sward (rife with sandroses, wood anemones and wild cyclamen) a hare, its scut uplifted in alarm, scampers from the running crouch of a greyhound.