Word: cleanups
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...First, there was that briefing to the Defense Policy Board that characterized Saudi Arabia as a terror-supporting enemy of the U.S. whose oil fields may have to be seized. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld tried to play cleanup, saying simply that "Saudi Arabia is like any other country - it has a broad spectrum of activities and things, some of which ... we agree with and some that we may not." He also pointed out that the Defense Policy Board is not an official body - true, but it is a policy advisory group appointed by the Defense Secretary himself, and is visibly influential...
Straus residents were evacuated from the building for two hours until midnight while Cambridge firefighters extinguished the small blaze and police conducted their investigation, Queen said. A cleanup unit later cleaned the fourth floor, as well as water from the basement’s sprinkler system...
Sophomore first baseman, designated hitter and occasional pitcher Trey Hendricks blossomed into a force to be reckoned with in the cleanup spot, leading the team in batting (.372), RBI (29) and home runs (6) en route to being selected to the All-Ivy First Team...
...find 27 things to throw away. Or you spend five minutes cleaning up a particular "hot spot," a place where messes tend to pile up, like the bedside table or the junk drawer in your kitchen. The so-called Weekly Home Blessing Hour is actually 60 minutes of intensive cleanup in which you spend no more than 10 minutes on each area. To avoid feeling overwhelmed, Cilley encourages everyone to set a 10-minute timer for each task and stop when the buzzer rings--no matter what...
...workers at Ground Zero don't have that option - they're stuck in a time warp, reliving that awful day again and again. They make it safe for the rest of us to go downtown and breathe the air and wonder at the cool efficiency of the cleanup effort. "It's amazing," we marvel to ourselves. "It's like a clean slate." The workers are carrying our demons for us, having removed them from our sight. They'll struggle to exorcise their memories of glass and steel and gore for longer than most of us can imagine. And for that...