Word: cleaning
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...With the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Water Acts in 1972, giant corporate polluters knew the American public would no longer tolerate direct pollution anymore. Since then, they have changed their style--but not their substance. They have participated in a surreptitious media war, bypassed several federal laws, intensely lobbied Congress for loopholes and maliciously forced citizens to choose between humans and animals. The culmination was the 1994 Republican revolution when conservative leaders tried to repeal the Endangered Species Act, open national parks to logging and mining, and deregulate disposal of hazardous wastes...
...These blatant acts were not lost on American voters and there are signs the momentum is shifting. In the 1998 elections, Republicans struggled to explain why they constantly voted against clean water and air. Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) and former senator Alfonse D'Amato (D-N.Y.)--two staunch opponents of reform--failed miserably in trying to portray themselves as pro-environment, and were upset in electoral contests. My advice to politicians like Lauch and D'Amato: Give it up, guys. If D'Amato saw the endangered sea turtle...
...weekend's conclusion brings a clean slate for the Harvard wrestling team as it finishes one chapter of its season and gets set to write another...
...weekend's conclusion brings a clean slate for the Harvard wrestling team as it finishes one chapter of its season and gets set to write another...
Even so, every potential candidate is rehearsing an answer to the adultery question. "If we could get a caucus of all the candidates to agree to answer, 'None of your damn business,' that would change the world," says a Democratic consultant. "But that won't happen, because the clean guys will want to make the bad guys squirm." And in the G.O.P. it's not just the press they worry about, it's some fellow Republicans, especially those on the Christian right. The Rev. Lou Sheldon, who heads the Traditional Values Coalition, has said he will ask every candidate whether...