Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the truth of the charge -Mehren has never commented on it publicly-the AMPI directors set out to clean up the cooperative's image. In August 1973, they hired the Little Rock law firm headed by Edward L. Wright, a former president of the American Bar Association, to investigate the cooperative's past political wheeling and dealing. He found plenty, as his report showed last week when it became public. Among the report's revelations...
Life with Stevie may be relatively clean, but in every other way it is a circus of indecision, chaotic scheduling and the totally unexpected. It is not that he is a prima donna or purposely rude, says a friend, but "he just doesn't have days or nights, and he's seldom thinking more than ten minutes ahead." Scheduled to meet a photographer, he may march off to the recording studio or back to his apartment on Manhattan's East Side to whisper musical phrases into his "notebook," a portable cassette recorder...
...Star did hold up publication for two months so that the FBI could look into the evidence for possible federal violations. Despite the embarrassment to Lugar, the younger Pulliam decided the story could wait no longer. "It's more important," he told Star Managing Editor Bob Early, "to clean up a corrupt police department than to worry about winning an election...
...decided to deal with the issue at home. He formed a seven-man committee to study the police department, began interviewing some policemen himself. Finally, he fired the chief of police, a deputy and the city safety director. Then the mayor brought in a former Secret Service agent to clean house...
...stadium-like enclosures. Residents of Bombay know them as dokhmas-the "towers of silence." It is to these structures that the city's powerful community of Parsis bring the bodies of their dead, exposing them to the air so that scavenger birds can pick the corpses clean...