Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Homer would like to see Dorm Crew's early fall clean-up receive as much publicity as the Freshman Arts Program or the Freshman Outdoors Program...
...There is good management career potential there," Homer says. "If you can get your classmates to clean bathrooms, when you graduate you can probably get anybody to do just about anything...
...Year's Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt set a world record for shaking hands--8,150 of them, according to his biographer Edmund Morris, including those of "every aide, usher and policeman in sight." Having done his exuberant political duty, says Morris, Teddy went upstairs and privately, disgustedly, scrubbed himself clean...
Like shards from a shattered mirror, Fiona Apple's new album, When the Pawn Hits... (Clean Slate/Epic), glitters with reflective surfaces and sharp edges. The singer-songwriter's debut album, Tidal (1996), was a work of ingenue ingenuity, delicately designed, bright with innocence, laden with the prospect of future accomplishment. This follow-up CD is a promise kept: the 22-year-old's new compositions, angry but articulate, veering between gentle balladry and art-pop, don't need the crutch of precociousness to establish their worth. These are songs that stand on their...
...took 29 years, but darn it, the Clean Air Act is finally being enforced. This came as some surprise to seven huge electric companies, all of which were slapped with lawsuits Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency charges that the companies defied landmark anti-pollution regulations at their 32 coal-burning plants. The Clean Air Act of 1970 allowed existing plants to continue production without undergoing the costly modernization process required to bring them up to speed with new regulations. Companies were permitted to perform only routine maintenance at the plants, and if any major renovations were undertaken, the plants...