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Word: floriano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most important, the government knows how to tap the energy of the people. In some communities of former squatters outside the routes of sanitation trucks, residents take their own garbage to designated sites and in exchange receive bags of surplus vegetables from the city. A woman named Lindamir Vas Floriano says that before this so-called green-exchange program, her hilly neighborhood was completely carpeted with trash and plagued by disease. Now the area is almost litter free, and the people are noticeably healthier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megacities | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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