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...serious litter problem, is now virtually free of beverage litter. Vermont highway officials reckon that roadside container rubbish has been cut down by 76%. Litter has been reduced by 90% in Michigan's heavily used state parks, according to officials. But in some of its industrial areas the cleanup has cost hundreds of lost jobs in bottle factories and millions in lost tax revenues from bottle sales...
...cleanup will cost an estimated $1 billion. General Public Utilities Corp., parent company of the plant's operator, has spent all the money it could recover from insurers and is $760 million short...
There is one unquestionable advantage the enclosed pressbox has over the old one, Bertagna said. Pigeons. "They used to strafe the place to a tune of about $5000 a year in cleanup...
...been a long time since Hollywood Boulevard glittered with the perfervid glamour of the '20s. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams tarnished slowly for decades, declining by the late '60s and early '70s to the same sleazy fate as its East Coast counterpart, Times Square. Cleanup efforts partly succeeded, and now, on weekdays, some stretches feel like the downtown of a small city. But, says Police Sergeant Bob Rebhan, "I wouldn't go up Hollywood Boulevard on a weekend night without being armed...
...pronouncement caused bemusement-and some relief-in executive suites around the country. Studies conducted for ABC and NBC weeks ago concluded that CBTV and the Moral Majority had substantially overestimated national viewer support for their TV cleanup campaign. CBS News found that 30% of the member groups claimed by Wildmon denied that they belonged to the coalition...