Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, the junta has provided a clean and efficient government. Official corruption and smuggling, which once accounted for 70% of the country's retail trade, have been drastically curtailed. Exports have climbed 37% to a record $55 million, and bank receipts of compulsory savings on the salaries of all wage earners have given the government a substantial supply of working capital. Though one-quarter of the total labor force is unemployed, a new $2.5 billion five-year plan is expected to take up much of the slack...
...Loss of Scholars. That purpose was to tell the Jewish immigrant, in his own language, about life in the bewildering new world. During its early years the Forward had a strong Socialist bent, but its paternalism was even stronger. "Since when is Socialism opposed to clean noses?" said the late Ab Cahan, editor from 1902 until his retirement in 1950, after some party member objected to an editorial that urged mothers to keep their kinderle stocked with clean handkerchiefs. Socialist polemics were leavened with simple lessons on civics, American history and the Constitution. Readers ventilated their problems in "Bintel Brief...
...untouched and untroubled by a big-spending Agriculture Department that figures to cough up $3 billion in price supports in the current fiscal year. Last week some 5,000 farmers went to the organization's convention in Atlanta and determined to make a do-or-die effort to clean up the farm mess...
...more effectively and more efficiently use the revenues they now have. Unfortunately. Pennsylvania stands today as a prime example of outmoded and inefficient state government. One item alone stands like a millstone around our neck. I refer to the mammoth spoils system-the worst in the nation. Pennsylvania must clean its own house before she can stand as a bulwark against the monster bureaucracy that daily swells larger in Washington...
When the 37-year-old woman who ran a pet shop in a Los Angeles suburb cut her right middle finger on the metal rim of a tropical-fish tank, she thought nothing of it. The cut seemed to be clean, and it healed quickly. But within a month, abscesses formed under the skin on the back of her finger and hand. They were not painful, but they were unsightly, and occasionally one of them burst and oozed a sticky fluid until a new scab formed. The woman's 18-year-old son cut his finger on the same...