About 31% of the children were frequent thumb-suckers or nail-biters.
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If you like nail-biters, the Wild are the team for you.
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Luckily, you've got no shortage of options for streaming the nail-biters live.
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After several nail-biters, tonight's final Game 7 will decide who takes home the trophy.
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The tension and passive aggressive undertones between Kim and Kourtney have been real nail biters.
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Just check out this set between Omito and Rion, which features some real nail-biters.
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Some research shows that nail biters could also be just genetically predisposed to the bad habit.
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The Broncos also win nail-biters, going 11-3 in games decided by seven points or less.
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If the aerial battles are depicted somewhat awkwardly (more unhelpful projections), they are nail-biters all the same.
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Slightly less than a third of all children enrolled in the study were frequent nail biters or thumb suckers.
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If Texas voted blue, there would be no more election-night nail-biters waiting for Florida or Ohio results.
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The situation looked grim (and familiar) for the Knicks, who have lost their share of nail-biters this season.
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Although neither game featured a buzzer-beater or a late game-winning shot, at least they were nail-biters.
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"Ironically, nail biters may be more perfectionist and more prone to be dissatisfied with themselves and their performance," O'Connor said.
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Nail-biters were in short supply during the past week as Atlanta cruised to three consecutive wins by double-digit margins.
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"I ran twice against Charlie Rangel, did very well, both nail-biters," Mr. Espaillat said during a recent day of campaigning.
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See their takes on which placement choices are chill enough to induce naps and which are better known as nail biters, ahead.
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If there are extra innings to this economic cycle and to the performance of high-yield bonds, they're going to be nail-biters.
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Thirty-one percent of the children were described as "frequent" nail biters or thumb suckers (or both) at one or more of those ages.
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The decade-long fundraising crusade that ensued was so full of twists, turns, and nail-biters that Guthrie found it harrowing just to write about.
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Nail biters are perfectionists, people who over-plan and get frustrated quickly if they're idle, says Kieron O'Connor, a professor of psychiatrist at Montreal University.
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The play is replete with the clichés of sports underdog nail-biters, angry-young-teen stories and roads-not-taken dramas of middle-age regret.
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"I think both sides know this is going to be the nail-biter of nail-biters," said one Democratic strategist who is unaffiliated with a campaign.
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It has been a season of high scores and close games, and Week 143 offers more than a few nail-biters in terms of playoff races.
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Following a pair of nail-biters on the road, the Washington Nationals open up their home schedule Thursday afternoon with the first of three games against the Miami Marlins.
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Though it's true that nail biters sometimes have other psychiatric disorders like ADHD and separation anxiety disorder, OCD is an anxiety-driven obsession, while nail biting is not, they argue.
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But though the former thumb-suckers and nail-biters were less likely to show allergic sensitization, there was no significant difference in their likelihood of having asthma or hay fever.
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Take a look at all the successful teams over the years: Although they may win a few nail-biters, they will always have a good smattering of blowout wins, too.
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But they do know that it's a habit for a lot of us: about 20 to 30 percent of the population are nail biters, including up to 45 percent of teenagers.
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"If you look at the numbers, these are all seats where just seven months ago [Republicans] won by double digits, and they were nail-biters after Trump takes office," said Rep.
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The filmmakers (the script is by John Kare Raake and Harald Rosenlow Eeg) cook up the sort of unpleasantness that turns the better disaster pictures, like this one, into nail-biters.
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It turned out that children who were thumb-suckers, nail-biters or both had a 30% to 40% risk reduction in their chances of having allergies in childhood, which persisted in adulthood.
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An analysis of more than 1,000 kids between the ages of 403 and 11 reveals that nail-biters and thumb-suckers are less likely to develop allergic sensitivities later on in life.
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Even assuming you're not assiduously washing your hands, microdosing matter from your environment is actually quite good for you: Research suggests that childhood nail-biters may develop better immune systems and fewer allergies.
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A third of nail biters state that they have a family member who bites their nails as well, says Shari Lipner, an assistant professor of dermatology at Weill Cornell Medicine who's researched nail biting.
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ABOUT THE AVALANCHE (23-22-4): Colorado has crawled back into postseason contention due to its success in nail-biters — Wednesday's shootout win over San Jose boosted the team's record to 14-2-3 in one-goal games since Dec. 1.
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The psychological thriller, in particular, seems susceptible to the problems of too many, and too-clever, ruses; think of star-driven nail-biters like Hide and Seek or What Lies Beneath, both movies far too eager to deliver their implausible endings.
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The middle day of the Call of Duty League's Launch Weekend had a little bit of everything Saturday, with a trio of nail-biters bookended by a pair of sweeps accounting for the Day 2 action at the Minneapolis Armory.
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In a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers drew evidence from an ongoing study of New Zealand children to show those whose parents described them as thumb-suckers and nail-biters were less likely to have positive allergic skin tests later in life.
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Even though the Super Bowl game lacked the thrill of recent nail-biters — the Patriots beat the Rams, 13-3, the lowest-scoring Super Bowl ever — the N.F.L. can take the lack of drama, in the game and off, as a sign of regaining its footing.
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It's rare that a book hitting the list is a total surprise, but there are nail-biters and books that hit higher than we expected and that's a beautiful thing … but not as beautiful as making that call to an author who has worked so hard to make her book a reality and telling her that she is an official NYT best seller.
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Also known as "true" leukonychia, this is the most common form of leukonychia, in which small white spots appear on the nails. Picking and biting of the nails are a prominent cause in young children and nail biters. Besides parakeratosis, air that is trapped between the cells may also cause this appearance. It is also caused by trauma.
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After the Buccaneers turned three consecutive potential blowout wins into nail-biters, safety Rick Woods said that the team seemed to be playing not to lose instead of playing to win. As an example, he noted that many players turned to see how much time was left on the clock after Cardinals linebacker Niko Noga returned a James Wilder Sr. fumble for a touchdown.
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"Stastny wants to stamp out signs," Sherbrooke Record, 11 June 2004, p. 4. Considered a strong candidate for the Conservatives in Quebec, he received 4,888 votes (11.05%) for a third-place finish against Liberal incumbent Denis Paradis.Daniel Drolet, "Nail-Biters to watch in Quebec," Ottawa Citizen, 26 June, B6. Stastny's family is of Slovakian origin, and he is a distant relative of the former hockey player and current member of the European Parliament named Peter Stastny.
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They wouldn't lose again for over a month, despite nail-biters against Clemson and Florida State. This set up a regular-season finale against Duke with the winner clinching the ACC regular-season title and the top seed in the 2011 ACC Tournament—only the fifth winner-take-all game in the series' 92-season history. The Tar Heels won with relative ease, 81–67, to win their 28th ACC regular-season title and fifth outright title in seven years. It also completed the Tar Heels' fourth undefeated season in the Smith Center.
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Jerry Falwell went to Miami to help her and Bryant made the following statements during the campaign: "As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children" and "If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters." In response gay activists countered with the slogan Suck a Fruit for Anita playing on the words to imply that oral sex ("Suck") with other gays ("Fruit") was an appropriate response.
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Bryant agreed to an interview with Playboy magazine, in which she was quoted saying that the civil rights ordinance "would have made it mandatory that flaunting homosexuals be hired in both the public and parochial schools ... If they're a legitimate minority, then so are nail biters, dieters, fat people, short people, and murderers." ("Playboy Interview: Anita Bryant", Playboy, (May 1978), p. 73–96, 232–250.) Bryant would often break into her standard "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while speaking during the campaign, called homosexuals "human garbage", and blamed the drought in California on their sins. (Clendinen, p.
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From the 2001-02 season to the 2008-09 season, the Golden Knights won five league championships in eight seasons. Their greatest challenge in this period may have been the Westport Rideaus in the 2005-06 playoffs. The Rideaus had the Golden Knights pinned down and against the wall 3 games to 2 in the final series, but the Golden Knights battled back and took the last two nail-biters to win their fourth title. The Golden Knights had a banner year for the 2008-2009 season by winning the D. Arnold Carson trophy for the 6th time in the team's history and its 5th league championship in 8 years.
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The second Test at Lord's was rained off, and Australia won the third at Bramall Lane by 143 runs. The final two Tests were nail-biters—Australia winning the fourth at Old Trafford by only three runs and England earning a consolation victory in the fifth Test at the Oval by one wicket, when last-wicket pair George Hirst and Wilfred Rhodes eked out the final runs.Wynne-Thomas, pp. 233–234. Armstrong had a good tour, making 1,075 runs at 27.56 and taking 72 wickets at an average of 17.90, but the star for the Australians was Victor Trumper, who made 2,570 runs at an average of 48.49 including eleven centuries.
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" McCarthy and Roy Cohn more often used the secrets of closeted gay American politicians as tools for blackmail than did foreign powers.Von Hoffman, Nicholas, Citizen Cohn Doubleday, 1988 Anita Bryant organized Save Our Children, a widespread campaign to oppose legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The group argued that gay people were "recruiting" or "molesting children" in order to make them gay. Bryant infamously claimed that "As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children," and also claimed that "If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.
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Tech had a short three day break that allowed them to head home where they would host first-place Michigan. The Huskies handed UM their first loss of the season with 4–2 victory and just when it looked like Tech could pull into the lead, the Wolverines returned the favor with their own 4–2 win in the second game. This not only dropped MTU to 7-3 in the conference but, with no further games against the powerful Wolverines, MTU would need help to finish atop the WCHA. With little time to lick their wounds, the Huskies hit the road and played series against Minnesota and North Dakota. After taking both games against the Golden Gophers they played a pair of nail-biters in Grand Forks, winning the first game 2–1 and escaping with a second win after a 3–2 finish in overtime.
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The A's matched up against first place Wareham in the playoff semi-finals, and promptly disposed of the Gatemen in two games. In the championship series, Chatham met up with Hyannis in a best three-out-of-five title tilt. The A's went on the road for Game 1, and came away with a tight 5–4 win in 11 innings. Game 2 at Veterans Field also went to extra frames, with the Mets taking a 4–3 lead in the 11th, but the home club tied it in the bottom half, and then took the lead in the 12th to win by another 5–4 tally. Reliever Kurt Lundgren got the win in both games, coming on in the eighth inning of Game 1, then in the 12th inning of Game 2 to nail it down after starter Kanwisher held the mound through eleven. After two nail- biters, Game 3 at McKeon Park was a runaway.
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