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...most students said the problem has not been as frustrating since workers began to take preventative measures. Workers currently shovel snow from the roofs, replaster areas of ceilings and change damaged mattresses...

Author: By Paul Cohen, | Title: Roof Leaks Annoy First-Years | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

Medeiros said the crews often don't get enough respect from people. Another problem for the crews, Medeiros said, is that people sometimes shovel the snow right back onto the streets...

Author: By Steven G. Dickstein, | Title: Area Snowfall Increases | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...Corps volunteers arrived in Moscow last week; half have M.B.A.s, and several are company presidents. They will spend two years staffing small business advisory centers all over Russia. Officials from the republics are taking Capitalism and Democracy 101 at a Vienna institute. Donors are shifting resources to "hoe and shovel people" who will immerse themselves in teaching Russians how to solve their own problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A $2 Trillion Wish List | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...president has a Herculean problem of cleaning his inherited Augean stables across the University. The only tools he will require are an ax, a broom and a shovel, and perhaps the prayers of all who truly care for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Alumni Evaluates Endowment Performance | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Perhaps the most shocking thing about Pearl Harbor's pollution is that it is duplicated at hundreds of military installations around the country. Stick a shovel into the ground at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground north of Baltimore, Maryland, and the soil begins to burn with phosphorous waste from decades of manufacturing military flares. A firing range the size of Manhattan at the Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thousand Points of Blight | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

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