Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yearly (v. only 30,000 ten years ago), enabling Italy to edge out West Germany as Europe's leading producer. Washing-machine sales are rising so fast that they are catching up with refrigerators, and stores can hardly keep in stock any labor-saving appliance, from a vacuum cleaner to a floor polisher...
...seven of ten races and an all-time record $402,969; two weeks ago he clearly stamped himself the best in the East by coasting to a five-length victory in Florida's $136,600 Flamingo Stakes. The West's champion, Candy Spots, has an even cleaner record: he has won all his five races, and on the same day that Never Bend won the Flamingo, he skirted a four-horse pile-up to win California's $143,300 Santa Anita Derby by 1½ lengths...
...satisfy the Congressmen-least of all Arkansas' Mills. He has long cherished the goal of drastically revising the income tax laws, combining deep rate cuts with a closing or narrowing of the tax code's numerous routes of tax avoidance. He wants a tax code that is cleaner, simpler, more equitable than the present tangle, and plainly is no admirer of the Administration package. It would cut the rates, all right, but its proposed reforms are skimpy, uneven and not very fair...
...Left. In the austere Berggruen Galeries the trio waltzed in, snapped up 50 lithographs. Steaming into another gallery, they flabbergasted the owner by buying up, at 33% off, all the works of an unknown Sunday painter. Within hours after their arrival in Paris, word of their vacuum-cleaner technique spread around the town, and the work began coming to them in their hotel. "They've started bringing their mothers', wives', brothers' and ex-wives' paintings in now," said Price at one point. Their average rate of buying was 500 works...
...acordance with the results of a poll taken in the Lowell House Dining Room, the HCUA recommended greater variety in Central Kitchen menus, cleaner trays and silverware, better and more imaginative preparation of desserts, and possibly longer hours for dining halls...