Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn, most of the standard volunteer organizations aren't geared to placing these people. Either the work requires special skills, like the Peace Corps or VISTA, or it is dull routine, like cleanup jobs at Mass General. Since over half the Center's volunteers have never gone to high school, almost none to college, those that try these other organizations usually wind up with the worst jobs...
...political arm of the Buddhist-backed Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), led by piously political Daisaku Ikeda, 38, Komeito attracts the new Japanese: city dwellers who have lost contact with the ward-oriented politics of their rural home towns. Komeito calls for a cleanup in the wheeling and dealing typical of Asian government. Since Japan is fated, for better or worse, to a continuing urban growth and a growing urban malaise, it is mass parties of the Komeito brand that will doubtless dictate Japan's political future...
...peasants have grown increasingly unsympathetic. FALN may also have hoped to attract new recruits to its ranks. From a strength of 500 full-time terrorists only three years ago, the organization can now count on fewer than 250 full-time gunslingers. By the time Leoni's drastic new cleanup campaign is over, the ranks will be thinner still...
Whether the government would ever get around to the cleanup Frei wanted was anybody's guess. In any case, admitted the Interior Ministry, prostitution cannot be ended overnight...
...without equal as nature's vandals-by-indifference. At Lake Tahoe, the story is hearteningly the reverse. For nearly a decade, local, state and federal agencies have fought valiantly and, it now seems, successfully, to save Tahoe from the fate that has necessitated a long-range antipollution cleanup program for Lake Erie. What has been achieved at Tahoe is the arresting of the life cycle of the lake so that its crystalline waters may retain the remarkable purity that still ranks them far above the federally required drinking standards...