help asap i am doing school and i needs help with this one after few moments of discussion it was decided that the rental company would send a taxi and have a tow truc tow the car to the repair shop. lian was on pins and needles. What would pins and needles mean

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1.apartheid excluded majority of south africans
2.members of resistance were often ill treated in prisons and effects of it spred on their famillies
3.when some protester was killed due to police action it often was only employed person in the familly which led to lack of income
4.accidental vitims of street war
5.separation of famillies
6.sowing distrust in teh communities