Word: cleanness
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...Your parents are not your slaves, and while it’s perfectly acceptable for them to treat you and your 20 closest friends to brunch at Henrietta’s Table, they shouldn’t have to fix up your room too. Be polite, and clean up after yourself...
...When guests are visiting for the weekend, make sure your futon is clean, that you have an extra pillow and blanket, and that you actually have something planned. And by the way, no one wants to listen to you two reminiscence about that amazing July 4th weekend you spent with “you know who” doing “you know what”— especially the part where you give each other a meaningful look and burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter while the rest of the room looks on in pained silence...
...animals, and the organization also polices experimenters’ cruel and unnecessary mutilation of animals by investigating laboratories and scrutinizing proposed protocols. As a grizzled vivisector grudgingly admitted to me last fall when I was tabling at a university, “You people have really forced us to clean up our act over the past 20 years...
...could emerge as the country's next leader. Toussaint, who is patiently waiting out the civil war inside his mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, next to a commercial shooting range he owns, is a former Aristide bodyguard who once headed Haiti's police force. He adroitly made a clean break with the President and his Lavalas Party last year when it seemed Aristide's popularity was plummeting. Toussaint, 46, is no stranger to controversy; he has been investigated by Haitian and U.S. officials for crimes ranging from the assassinations of Aristide foes to narcotics trafficking. In a conversation with TIME...
...recently named James Minder, 74, chairman of the board without knowing he had spent 15 years in Michigan prisons for a string of armed robberies and an attempted prison break. Although his days as a sawed-off-shotgun-toting college student are long gone--he has had a clean record since 1969--by law Minder can't own or even handle a firearm. Asked why he didn't disclose his past to Smith & Wesson earlier, he said, "Nobody asked...