Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hospitals, Representatives of Civilization to take her away and sanitize her, stop me from holding her all wet and hot and squiggly, washing her myself, nesting, bonding. I could look out my window and see the sentinel mahogany gums. They were blue-green, and their branches swam in the clean wind. I didn't want to be anywhere else...
After decades of neglect, Athens is at last getting some attention. In March a committee of representatives from all major public service ministries met to discuss a plan to unclog the city, make it livable and clean up its environment. A save-Athens ministry, which will soon begin functioning, will propose heavy taxes to discourage in-migration, and a minimum of $5 billion in public spending for Athens alone. The ministry will also have an extensive investment program for rural areas to encourage residents to stay put. A master plan that will move many government offices to the city...
Winning was not the only thing for the Harvard lights this weekend at Hanover, N.H. Perfection was their goal. That is why there were a lot of dissatisfied oarsmen, especially the varsity eight, despite returning with the Biglin Bowl for the 15th straight year after a clean sweep of Dartmouth...
...number of national issues from energy to urban blight to aging. More than 35,000 Americans responded." An ARCO official told The New York Times that the company's three long-term public policy concerns were the withdrawal of public lands from development, the stringency of the Clean Air Act and increasing government regulation of corporations. ARCO's programs to mobilize employees and propagandize the public against these threats to its economic interest are described in its annual report under the rubric of "Corporate Responsibility." That takes chutzpah...
Originally, the NRC said it suspected all Babcock & Wilcox reactors (the type of reactor in use at Middletown) had design defects that could promote problems similar to those encountered in Pennsylvania. Early this week, that claim was refuted, and B & W reactors got a clean bill of health...