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...leaving fields littered with everything from flip-flops and shampoo bottles to refrigerators and entire 18-wheelers. One of about 3,000 trash piles is 5 miles long and half a mile wide. There are oil drums that look like soup cans the size of FedEx trucks. Work to clean up the mess officially begins the Tuesday after Labor Day. For now, officials are still getting permits and making cleanup plans. The only work being done on the canals is to catch oil and other hazardous liquids and keep them from going into the Gulf...
...wasn't until June that President George W. Bush signed the fourth hurricane appropriation bill giving U.S. Fish & Wildlife $132 million to clean up hazardous material. The delay will end up costing taxpayers more money - because the same cleanup crews that worked last fall have to return to Louisiana and start again. In the year since Rita, the debris has sunk deep into the marsh, making hazardous materials more difficult to find and retrieve. Plus, labels have peeled off containers, so no one knows exactly what they have contained, or how much they have already leaked. No one knows...
...seven and ends at two. You are finally free from those defining middle school years that eternally labeled you as the quiet girl, an “orch(estra) dork,” or that kid who wore jumpers every day in seventh grade. Tabula rasa. The slate is clean...
...called Credit Suisse) for tech deals. After the government started looking into how bankers set aside shares of promising IPOs for favored clients and pressured analysts to issue rave reports about companies that often had no way of making money, Quattrone sent an e-mail reminding colleagues to "clean up" old files, per company policy. The Justice Department viewed that as obstruction of justice, since it had already started investigating IPOs involving Credit Suisse. One jury was divided on the issue. Another, in 2004, found Quattrone guilty, after which he was sentenced to 18 months in prison...
...clear: Pluto has to go. Clean out your locker, turn in your playbook and go see the coach. Oh, and on your way out, tell the other walk-ons and wannabes that the roster is frozen. We're sticking with the original eight...