Word: cleanness
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...Whitman's successes - promulgating regulations that slash diesel pollution and issuing fiats forcing General Electric to clean up part of New York's Hudson River -? may eventually outlive her struggles. But White House reversals on regulating greenhouse-gas emissions and last-minute, Clinton-era rules for regulating arsenic in drinking water smashed her credibility with environmental groups early in the administration. The White House has yet to name a successor or indicate when it will decide...
...bonus; a blank political slate can trump a documented history. As head of an EPA regional office (and former Illinois EPA chief), Skinner sees to it that states and the companies within them comply with the agency's rules and standards - licensing and inspecting big polluters, and issuing clean-up orders...
...When toilets are clean, people are happy and healthy...
...predecessor, Kim Dae Jung?who said South Korean agents tried to kill him three times in his days as a democratic activist?also vowed to clean up the agency. But by the end of Kim's presidential term in February, he was embroiled in a scandal over charges that the NIS illegally funneled money to Kim Jong Il to buy the North Korean dictator's participation in a June 2000 summit. "Every new government promises to make the spy service neutral," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "But they all end up abusing...
...until they died, often emaciated and lashed to their cots. Shanghai officials fired Zhang for demanding an investigation. She fled to England with a suitcase full of documents and photographs that became the basis for a chilling 1996 Human Rights Watch report called Death by Default. Her actions helped clean up the orphanage, but today Zhang fears she has sent the wrong message to colleagues back home. She must live in exile, but the man whom Human Rights Watch blamed for covering up the scandal, Wu Bangguo, is No. 2 in the Politburo. "Other doctors will learn from my experience...