Word: dust
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...rest is grunt work. According to Maurer, it will take between 15 and 18 months to painstakingly rub away years of dust, air pollutants and smoke from the nearby Back Bay railroad, inch by inch, which cotton swabs and cleaning solutions...
...When the dust finally settled after three overtime periods, an additional 105 points had been scored since that 14:22 mark...
...SAMPLING Air sucked through special filters will capture lots of desert dust and maybe small amounts of chemical, biological or radioactive material. U.N. teams will also use swipes and handheld detectors...
...this side of, well, a meeting with 5,001 accountants, but thanks to the bookkeeping debacles at kleptocorporations like Enron, once-ignored accountants are suddenly the mysterious bad boys of the corporate world. This year's congress was the perfect chance for the tarnished industry to pick itself up, dust itself off and blame Kenneth Lay for all its problems. I was assigned to cover...
...dust clears from the Senate vote creating a Cabinet-level Homeland Security Department, Tom Ridge is poised to take on one of the most critical and politically risky jobs in Washington's history - and to head up the second largest federal agency after the Pentagon. Despite his new clout, the department will take months, if not years, to create - time that critics say the country just doesn't have. For his role at the center of this sweeping reorganization of the federal bureaucracy, the former Pennsylvania governor is our Person of the Week...