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...Keep Brown Beautiful" is a "behavior modification program" designed to train students not to litter...

Author: By The BROWN Daily herald, | Title: Beautiful Brown | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

...program--funded by Brown's maintenance department and a matching grant from an unidentified New York alumnus--pays students $8 an hour to scour the campus every morning for litter, and the money the students make is donated to the financial aid fund...

Author: By The BROWN Daily herald, | Title: Beautiful Brown | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

Assume then that she laughs when she makes a joke about Queen Elizabeth's taste in clothes, something like, "I put a doily under the Kitty Litter. She was very impressed. She took it home for a hat." Supply giggles also when she takes on Nancy Reagan: "She's a great lady. She never swears. She told me to go and reproduce myself." And realize as well that Rivers is smiling when she tosses darts at her favorite target, Elizabeth Taylor: "She pierced her ears and gravy came out" or "Mosquitos see her and scream 'Buffet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Barbs for the Queen (and Others) | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...doesn't take more than a few peeks to realize there's more to this crowd than roughness. The striking punks aren't trying to threaten--rather, their severe looks and loud music are a desperate effort to impress the hurried passersby, to get more attention that the litter skittering past their army boots...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlen, | Title: Growing Pains | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

Vermont spent 56 fewer work hours, and 31 percent fewer dollars on litter pick-up after the passage of a bottle bill. After two years with a bottle bill. Oregon litter clean-up bills dropped by an estimated $632,000 per year. Park Managers in Detroit estimate the year's savings after implementation of a bottle bill at $300,000 lows reported a 90 percent reduction of litter in state parks. Bottle bills in two states in which their effect was measured saved enough energy in one. Oregon, to supply house heating needs of 50,000 people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bottle Bill | 3/22/1983 | See Source »

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