Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license plate reading 1 DIV 0 referred to an Infiniti. He's sure to clean up during Supreme Court Justice Week on Jeopardy...
...idea for a Riverkeeper sprang from the hard head of Bob Boyle, a writer at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and a sportfisherman who in the 1960s fought for clean waters and founded the Hudson River Fishermen's Association--at the time an unlikely alliance of commercial interests and environmentalists. American environmental law came into its own in 1980, when the Con Edison power company, after a battle with the fishermen, dropped its plan to build a huge facility on Storm King Mountain near the Hudson that was designed to store water for hydroelectric-power generation but would also have damaged a major...
...have the time to worry about everyone else. People in Comitan can't be bothered about events happening half-way around the world; they need to worry about themselves." Newspapers covering events beyond the state of Chaipas are scare here. Individuals have to worry about more immediate, personal concerns: clean water, food and some sort of health care. (At 6 a.m., there is a line outside the only hospital in the area...
...allergies, and who came home grumpily one day from a job interview, startled that her potential employer had asked her to dye her hair back to its natural color. "I mean, I would take out my nose-ring for a job, but this is discrimination! My hair's clean. It's well-groomed...
Around the time when I could stand the bed-shaking no more, word-of-mouth got around to my ears, and I discovered that a single room (with a double bed!) had opened up in a clean and cozy flat. Once again, I packed up my bags. This time, however, I did not move in with strangers. I moved in with two Harvard students, who, like me, are spending their summers at career-related internships...