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...most active inspection program is run by the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service, but it is purely voluntary and paid for by the plant operators and major fish outlets like fast-food restaurants. About 7% of seafood plants participate, and they tend to be the cleanest ones that need inspection least...
...Binghams of Louisville must have the cleanest dirty laundry in the country. Two books have previously been published and another is in the works about their squabbles over money and power and the subsequent sale of the family-owned Louisville Courier-Journal and associated enterprises. Passion and Prejudice is the first account of the troubles written by a participant. Sallie Bingham, 52, is the rebellious and talented daughter regarded by many as the catalyst who precipitated the breakup of the family business, which grossed the author $62 million...
...more abundant than anyone thought a decade ago, natural gas is the cleanest hydrocarbon fuel available. But in many cases, utilities that wish to switch from coal-fired power generation to gas-fired must go through a lengthy process to obtain a federal permit. Such regulations, which inhibit the increased use of natural gas, should be eased...
Mayer would like changes, though he is a pragmatist rather than a reformer. He even seems to have been partially seduced by the pre-crash '80s, a period as supercilious about amassing money as the '70s were overbearing about running up the sexual score. Greed, he concludes, "is the cleanest of vices, the one most easily and publicly rebuked by reality." His good book suggests otherwise. Its lively pages testify to the tendency of greed (or any other vice) to distort reality and ensure that those in its grip will keep coming back for more...
...came together with a closeness seldom vouchsafed to friends. This entitles me to call him the greatest, cleanest, sweetest soul of all the land -- of all my days...