Word: labors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Labor Day weekend. Already? Well, yes. And a friend of mine reports seeing the first little "Noel" sign, shyly poking its head up over a bin of holiday items when he visited his local Costco last weekend. Maybe we should all get an early jump on our Christmas card lists in the next week...
...shampoo bottles to refrigerators and entire 18-wheelers. One of about 3,000 trash piles is 5 miles long and half a mile wide. There are oil drums that look like soup cans the size of FedEx trucks. Work to clean up the mess officially begins the Tuesday after Labor Day. For now, officials are still getting permits and making cleanup plans. The only work being done on the canals is to catch oil and other hazardous liquids and keep them from going into the Gulf...
...setting up "megacenters" that combined FEMA, housing, hospital referral and medical services in centralized locations. The city's expanse of shelter space and existing plans to house natural disaster victims in them helped too, and Atlanta got "extremely lucky" that hospitals had few scheduled surgeries due to the upcoming Labor Day weekend last year...
...mess with me." Pelosi carries a chip on her shoulder, believing that fellow Democrats and media élites have constantly underestimated her political ability, dating back to her unsuccessful effort to become head of the Democratic National Committee in 1985, when she was called an "airhead" by a labor-union official. She will talk about those political battles only vaguely but told me the Democratic establishment in Washington "couldn't control me, so they needed to take me down" and "They can't even believe the fact that I'm going to become Speaker, but they're getting used...
...even as he gears up for the stretch run of the midterm-election campaign, which has Republicans more worried than they have been in a dozen years. His traditional summer sojourn at his ranch was cut from a month to nine days, but he dived into the gritty, sweaty labor that he loves. Each week aides put a new photo album on a credenza outside the door to the Oval Office for the President and visitors to savor; the current edition features Bush in T shirt, ball cap and goggles, using power tools to cut a bike path through Texas...