Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along Lake Kivu for the past two years. By week's end, the fighting had cut almost all of them off from emergency relief, and aid workers were, as one put it, "running out of adjectives" to describe a disaster in which 700,000 refugees have no food, no clean water, no medicine, where orphaned children dash down roads for safety from incoming artillery shells. As for Hemingway's lovely lake, the expected epidemic of cholera would certainly adorn Kivu's shore with a necklace of corpses...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There is no one who wishes to maintain a clean and safe environment more than I. On weekends I regularly swim and surf off Point Loma with my two smallest children...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We can have clean air and clean water, as well as protect the rights of property owners. I am committed to keeping the lakes, streams and coastline of the 14th Congressional District pollution free...
...Tate parlayed his state legislative experience into a seat in Congress. Though he was the youngest G.O.P. freshman in the House, his youth didn't soften his conservative agenda: he voted to ease the Clean Water Act and to relax a law excluding court evidence illegally obtained by police. His proposal to bar illegal immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens was passed in modified form this fall. In this centrist district, Tate is running a close race with Adam Smith...
...votes in 1994, when voters everywhere kicked Democrats out of Congress. This year, with the Republicans up for a turn at vilification, Neumann may have a close race on his hands. He hopes to continue his efforts at balancing the budget: in his freshman term, he proposed "Operation Clean Sweep" and "America's Contract with Our Children," both designed to attack spending while preserving entitlements...