Word: cleaning
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Millions of moviegoers winced and smiled. The scene neatly captured their own late-'60s ambivalence toward the ever more synthetic landscape of their times. They loved their cheap, easy-to-clean Formica countertops, but envied--and longed for--the authentic touch and timelessness of marble and wood. The chord struck by that line in The Graduate underscored how much had happened in the six decades since the summer of 1907, when Leo Hendrik Baekeland made the laboratory breakthrough that would change the stuff our world is made...
...only for everyone's own good. I know Rome wasn't built in a day--it'll take a while to clean the barn of cliches. Hopefully this will get across the message--you can lead a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink. Ultimately, though, what's good for the goose is good for the gander; you guys will appreciate our renewed effort in the long run. After all, you can't run a jackass in the derby and expect...
...think that there's no doubt that when thenational media starts calling they don't want toportrayed in any other way than anelite,...perfect,...clean school, "Bartley said...
...this kind of scandal that hit the White House last week--and the fact that it involved China made the mess even harder to clean up. Bill Clinton has already been bruised by accusations that illegal Chinese contributions found their way into his 1996 campaign and that he was overeager to allow U.S. firms to sell high-end computers and satellite technology to Beijing. Now the "soft on China" shouts are louder than ever, boosted by claims from critics in both parties that top Administration officials delayed and soft-pedaled the investigation into alleged Chinese spying at Los Alamos National...
...Stein's piece in which he called the Adopt-a-Highway program the lamest charity he'd ever heard of [NOTEBOOK, March 1] was a slap in the face to those of us who care about the state of the environment. This program provides money and manpower to help clean littered stretches of highway. Maybe Stein enjoys seeing the rotting wrappers that blow across the endless roadways, but most of us do not. BRANDICE HARTSOCK Blacksburg...