Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clinching a cleanup treaty...
...Carter Administration has both helped and hindered youths looking for their first jobs. It will be spending $3.5 billion this year to create a wide range of employment from trail building in national parks to neighborhood cleanup programs. But the Administration-backed hike in the minimum wage from $2.30 an hour in 1977 to the current $3.10 has hurt teen-age employment. At that rate, economists believe, many teen-agers are simply priced out of the market; businessmen, complaining that unskilled workers are not worth such salaries, are reluctant to hire them. What is more, some Administration job programs have...
These scenes are part of a national nonprofit cleanup effort called Keep America Beautiful, Inc. Though their characters sometimes seem straight out of Norman Rockwell paintings, the surprising thing is that the campaign is working. So well, in fact, that dozens of American cities have sharply cut their Utter levels in the past few years. In Atlanta alone, where representatives of Keep America Beautiful as well as delegates from 14 foreign countries gathered last week for the 1980 conference of Clean World International, litter has been reduced by 52%. Two smaller Georgia cities have done even better. In Rome...
...sorties by young and old into the streets with brooms and garbage bags are only part of Keep America Beautiful. "A one-day cleanup doesn't accomplish anything," explained Sidney H. Estes, assistant superintendent for instruction for the Atlanta public schools and chairman of the Atlanta Clean City Commission. "Unless you educate people and change their Uttering behavior, you be back up to your knees in junk a day later...
Explanations for the emergence of Bobby "Kong" Kelley? "That's no new-found power," the second baseman says, "That's a short centerfield fence." And, insiders concede, Kelley will not soon be trading his leadoff spot for Mark Bingham's cleanup position. But this is a much-improved Kelley...