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Word: augean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obstacle to the republics' independence and too cautious in enacting economic reforms. (They too were correct.) This man with the stain on his forehead attempted simultaneously to contain and transform the country, to destroy and reconstruct, right on the spot. One can be Hercules and clean the Augean stable. One can be Atlas and hold up the heavenly vault. But no one has ever succeeded in combining the two roles. Surgery was demanded of Gorbachev, but angry shouts broke out whenever he reached for the scalpel. He wasn't a Philippine healer who could remove a tumor without blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mikhail Gorbachev | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Before coming to CSN, Marques was finance secretary for the city of Rio de Janeiro--a job of Augean proportions. When she arrived in 1993, city coffers held a paltry $5 million. In two years' time, Marques--earning the epithet "the Billion-Dollar Woman"--turned Rio's battered fortunes completely around, cutting wasteful programs, renegotiating service contracts and declaring war on tax dodgers. By the time she left, the city's reserves were pumped up to $1.2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARIA SILVIA MARQUES: CEO, NATIONAL STEEL CO.; RIO DE JANEIRO | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...president has a Herculean problem of cleaning his inherited Augean stables across the University. The only tools he will require are an ax, a broom and a shovel, and perhaps the prayers of all who truly care for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Alumni Evaluates Endowment Performance | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...crushing whatever chance the U.S.S.R. had of making it into the 21st century as a modern, civilized country. All those missiles in their silos, all those troops in foreign lands, all those rubles and cheap oil flowing to Cuba, represented resources that he desperately needed for the Augean task of cleaning up the mess that stretches from Vilnius to Vladivostok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush: The Summit Goodfellas | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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