Word: scrubbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over its 50-year history, the Student Dorm Crew has relied on above-average pay and generous incentives to encourage students to roll up their sleeves and scrub bathroom sinks. But when students found more money in their pockets after the University's much-touted increase in financial aid last fall, the Dorm Crew program was left to develop new strategies to encourage students to work...
...Newcomers usually like to start with dry work because most of them are anti-bathroom," he says. "They don't want to have to touch toilets or scrub showers or anything like that...
...expected to reach at least $160 million. The government will eventually spend more than $100 million to clean up a site in Wayne, N.J., contaminated with radioactive waste. The company has agreed to chip in $32 million. The government estimates it will cost as much as $200 million to scrub up a zinc-smelter site in Palmerton, Pa. The tab for cleaning up radioactive waste, at a site in Weldon Spring, Mo., is put at $800 million...
Next time, think twice before calling someone a "birdbrain." A new study published in the journal Nature Thursday suggests our feathered friends are a lot smarter than we thought -- at least when it comes to remembering where they put that nice, juicy bug. Behavioral scientists studying scrub jays said that the birds displayed what is known as episodic, or event-based, memory. The jays were able to remember which side of a tray their larva was buried on, and how long ago they put it there; if the larva was past its sell-by date, the birds didn't even...
...Yugoslavia; it's simply moved south. The rebellious province of Kosovo today looks dangerously like Bosnia yesterday: Serb soldiers marauding through isolated villages, firing wildly at the inhabitants; corpses of women and children laid out for identification by relatives; stony-faced refugees scrambling for shelter across hillsides covered in scrub oak; belligerent young ethnic Albanian rebels waving Kalashnikovs and grenades at random roadblocks...