Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, Carey's alienation of former supporters seriously eroded his popularity, thus making the contest for union president close and the need for last-minute funds pressing. Those funds, say authorities, were illegally channeled to Carey. "He was a leader with all the power in the world to clean up the union," says Ted Katsaros, a reformer who suffered beatings at the hands of mobsters in one of New York's most corrupt Teamsters locals. "Instead, we never saw him again." Adds Gene Giacumbo, who was elected a vice president on Carey's reform slate in 1991 but who later...
...Teamsters for a Democratic Union. But Hoffa charged last week that contributors like Gail Zappa--wife of rock singer Frank Zappa--had made contributions to the reform group that were arranged by the Democratic National Committee. That brought reports that the FBI was investigating. If it takes a Mr. Clean to run the Teamsters, the union may never get a new president...
MOVING TOWARD CLEAN ELECTIONS...
...rearing of the compulsively clean begins at a young age. Little tykes are shuttled relentlessly from the outdoors to the sacred Inside of the House by a whirlwind of a mother that whisks every molecule of dirt off their bodies. "Take your shoes off!" sounds the battle...
Things changed once I got out of the Inside, however. I found College life isn't particularly friendly to the compulsively clean. Friends and mere acquaintances feel at liberty to fling their polluted bodies onto the pristine haven of my bed without regard for my well-being. Shoes track dirt into the dorm room and there is no reining them in. I find myself sharing cups and utensils with people I have known only for a span of months. Three years of this nerve-wracking activity and I am hanging on by a neatly-trimmed fingernail. What...