Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, began working with insects fossilized in ancient amber and the microbes, presumably long dead, that their bodies contained. The problem, noted an exasperated Cano, was that live bacterial colonies kept popping up in the samples. And, oddly enough, the super-clean procedures followed by his laboratory appeared powerless to prevent the unwelcome intrusions...
Backed by a powerful coalition of industrial, agricultural and state interests, the House adopted a broad dilution of the Clean Water Act, the legislation widely credited with cleaning up the nation's waterways. Proponents said the changes -- handing over more controls to states, reducing wetlands protection and requiring that greater weight be given to costs -- were needed to counter an overzealous EPA and other "environmental extremists." The Senate is expected to be less receptive to the bill, and Clinton has promised a veto...
...flaking brown paint and squeaky front door on a corner lot in Grand Junction, Iowa (pop. 880), is dwarfed by his own legend. He is about 5 ft. 7 in. with neatly styled salt-and-pepper hair. He wears a pressed pair of jeans, black T shirt and clean white socks. "I can't wait till all this blows over, and I can go back to the mountains again," he says as he ushers a Time reporter into his living room, furnished with two couches and an exercise machine. He spends $250 a month on rent, getting by, according...
...worked hard to change that during my twoyears as president. The event of Question 9 caughtup with us before we could clean up our act," hesaid, referring to the controversial statereferendum that narrowly passed last fall,abolishing rent control...
...late April Senator Jesse Helms wrote to Attorney General Janet Reno asking for an investigation into whether Lacey 's team is keeping the Mob out of the Teamsters. Aides from Senator Orrin Hatch's Judiciary Committee are gathering documents and considering hearings. if such an examination indicates Carey is clean, it would finally put to rest the speculation that he is a federal informant along the lines of the late Teamsters leader Jackie Presser...