21.   Twelve years of protests against the logging practices of Pacific Lumber Co., a subsidiary of the Maxxam Group Inc., have rubbed nerves raw.

22.   Whites remain deaf to black testimony that most African Americans nonetheless live with their racial nerve ends rubbed raw from the large and small abrasions of racial friction.

23.   Interest rates may also be boosted to restrain the economy, another move that would rub voters raw by increasing mortgage lending rates.