Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the McDonald's formula, Ackerly eventually distilled her knowledge of "team cleaning" into a 300-page manual of dos and don'ts. The book serves as the basis for training new Mini Maid personnel. Among its teachings: pick up statuary in the middle, rather than at the top and bottom, and clean animal-skin rugs with a whisk broom rather than a vacuum cleaner. Sums up Ackerly: "The homeowner does not have to feed us, pick us up, give directions. We don't give a song and dance about our car breaking down as a reason for not showing...
...basketball players--Robert Taylor Sr. played at Clarkson Univeristy and Robert Jr. played for Ottawa University. Randy Taylor occasionally puts on a pair of sneakers and hits the court himself--with mixed results. Perhaps the spector of his older (and bigger) brother lurks in the background, even in the pick-up games Taylor plays...
Slave labor. On every ranch, in every spacious home, in every garden, by every poolside, they are there. Mexican workers to pick up after the children, the horses, the fallen oranges. Mexican workers to keep the dirt away from the million-dollar lifestyle that these Californians have bought into...
...STILL ENJOYED rambling around the ranch homes and orange groves. But now I also noticed the ever-present Mexican workers who were tidying up the yard and picking the fruit. Life wouldn't be so relaxed for the lucky ranch dwellers without the sweat of their hired labor. They probably wouldn't even live there without the Mexicans to pick up after them...
...Across the U.S. some 15,000 tons of the poisonous stuff are stored in aging containers by various utility companies; some 1,400 tons more are added every year. Congress thought it had solved the question, more or less, by deciding in 1982 that the Department of Energy would pick one gigantic burial site in the West (where there is more empty space) and one in the East (where most of the waste is produced). When DOE announced its favorite sites last spring, there was a great uproar from every area chosen for the honor; DOE then placated the East...