Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noble ambition to "clean up the sport," and if anyone were going to be kicked out for misconduct, Gary Hall, Jr. would be one of my first picks. I was not overjoyed at his suspension for failing a drug test, however, because he tested positive for a non-performance enhancing substance...
...announcement earlier this month that the A.D. club would close its doors to undergraduate members in order to clean up the building for its upcoming anniversary serves as a fitting footnote to a year that has seen the gradual retreat of the final clubs from the center of the Harvard social scene. Though the shutdown of the A.D. is being labeled a "temporary" move by current members and alumni, we hope the announcement, along with changes the other clubs have made this year, will lead to a permanent and positive change to the social atmosphere on campus...
...been training for decades to take them on. He was worrying about global warming back in college, when it was still more a theory than a real threat. His interest in stabilizing post-apartheid South Africa has drawn him to the problems of goat farmers and ways of bringing clean water and solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came up with a startling answer: new democracies tend...
...Wednesday, Wang Li, along with all the other demonstrators, had stopped picketing the embassy--he vowed to continue his protest by boycotting McDonald's--and Ambassador Sasser for the first time in four days was able to leave the battered building. But workmen were only beginning to clean up the broken glass, rocks and other debris. The embassy remained closed for business until further notice, and although Jiang finally accepted a call from Clinton on Friday, nobody could predict how long it would take the U.S. and China to climb out of the hole they have dug for themselves...
...snout will track it. A remote control turns it left or right. Available at www.world.sony.com/robot/for $2,500, AIBO costs more than most purebreds. But it doesn't shed, can't dig holes in the yard and needs no food or water. Best of all, you never have to clean up after...