Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...industry says it supports [the FCTC], but in fact they are working to undermine the framework in countries across the region," Bangorn says. The conference agenda, she says, includes presentations like "Operating in a World of Bans" and a regulatory workshop that "invites participants to wipe the regulatory slate clean and start afresh." Other topic descriptions spoke of "state-sponsored behavior modification" and "aggressive legislation." Particularly galling to the protesters was the seminar entitled "Harm and Risk Reduction: Should It Be an Integral Part of Global Health Policy...
...adults employing them, the relationship is different. You hire someone to clean your house and do your laundry. But in many cases, these women worked for the same white family for generation after generation. That, to me, is the difference between an employee and someone you feel close to. They're an important cog in the wheel of your family. Some readers tell me, "We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family." You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that. You look at all these rules...
...Jean-Marc Lech, co-president of the polling firm Ipsos, adding that Lellouche's swagger and trash-talking are traits he shares with Sarkozy. "Sarkozy gave Lellouche a position in government no one would risk before. But once Lellouche stepped over the line on his own, Sarkozy made him clean up the mess himself...
...Even though we're veterans and out of the service, we're still here for the community," says Shaun Tapie of Bellingham, Wash. The 25-year-old pulled two infantry tours in Iraq before leaving the Army last year. He recently spent a weekend with several fellow vets helping clean up an elderly lady's yard. "It was awesome just to be able to still help," he says. "We're not sitting there on corners asking for quarters." (See how to plan for retirement...
...Despite its lingering reputation as a drab building rife with petty crime, as a whole, Chungking Mansions has cleaned itself up in the past decade with the addition of more than 200 security cameras and an increased police presence. Thanks in part to Wong Kar-wai's popular 1994 film Chungking Express, the site draws a regular flow of tourists to its affordable curry houses and warren of knockoff-electronics booths. While members of Hong Kong's triads - the local underground crime syndicates - play a key role in Nine Dragons, they don't have much of a presence...