Word: grime
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...groceries and train tickets, for a schoolchild's spending money or a handout to a beggar. It gets rolled up for snorting drugs, or lost for years under sofa cushions. Shop clerks and bank tellers at the end of the day have to scrub off the black grime money imparts to their hands. But last week, when 12 European nations rolled out the single currency euro notes and coins, those intrinsically cheap little tokens - inoffensively illustrated with maps or imaginary monuments - managed to make Europeans feel they were part of something rather grand. Maybe never one great nation...
...steam.” This amazing machine now saves Karen Cower the trouble of scrubbing tile grout with a toothbrush and eliminates baby smells in Deanna Waterworth’s house. No more scrubbing or spraying; just watch as the Shark Steam Blaster liquefies grease and cuts through grime...
...more serious question—and the more difficult one—is whether trade in grime should be considered a prohibited exchange. We could let people choose to be prostitutes, or to work in environments that lack basic health or safety standards, but society has decided that these issues are simply too important to be left to employers and labor to negotiate—that discrepancies in economic power shouldn’t be allowed to push people into such exchanges. Does the grime trade fall in that category...
Alternatively, one might argue that it’s wrong to put a price on pollution. But we frequently decide how much grime-free streets are worth to us, in dollars—we decide that every year, when our city governments allocate a certain amount of our limited resources to street cleaning instead of schools and hospitals...
This need to put a price on invaluables becomes the sticking point when the topic shifts from grime to toxic waste. The earlier questions—transportation, agency, moral hazard—increase their importance dramatically, but that’s not what’s behind the memo forwards. Instead, the unspoken sentiment appears to be that toxic waste is horrible stuff, and we don’t like to think of it being produced or stored anywhere near people. But it has to be stored somewhere, and although we may not want economic power to influence the distribution...