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...staff of 20 year-round groundskeepers who maintain 70 percent of University property rake the leaves, blow them into piles and feed them through a vacuum and shredder...
...grinding noise began the morning after the presidential election, emanating from the sixth floor of the Justice Department as the Conveyor-400 paper shredder started up. The giant machine is reserved for destroying highly sensitive documents -- not just shredding them but turning them into powder. "It made a terrible racket that went on for 2 1/2 days," says Rita Machakos, a paralegal who works nearby. She had never seen so many records destroyed...
...correspondent during most of Ronald Reagan's second term, he covered the Iran-contra affair, speaking often with North's colleagues in the West Wing and on the National Security Council. He never succeeded in cornering the elusive lieutenant colonel himself, although he did once glimpse the infamous paper shredder. Firsthand knowledge of the players did not prevent Seaman from being surprised by some of the revelations in Under Fire, however. One disclosure was the extent to which the late CIA director William Casey "ran" North, schooling his eager protege in the basics of off-the- books operations. Another...
Most environmentalists espouse recycling, but Andre Carothers, editor of the bimonthly Greenpeace, implores his readers to pass the magazine on to friends or institutions before letting it go to the shredder. Now Carothers himself is looking for a wider audience for Greenpeace, which normally serves as a bonus house organ for 2 million members of its eponymous environmental organization. Last week he started to put some 20,000 copies of the publication on national ! newsstands and in bookstores, hoping to attract new readers with "information and avenues for action that are useful to the movement and the planet...
...middle of the room offer all the flat work space available. Several phones and a single fax machine connect the ministry with the rest of the world. There are two currency counters and enough calculators to ensure that Kuwait Inc. functions to the proper decimal points. A shredder sits near a large safe, opposite a small television set. But CNN, which everyone is eager to watch, is available only on another TV, two floors up -- a Saudi concession, since the kingdom prohibits the public reception of CNN everywhere else...