Word: spic-and-span
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...public park where we all need to pitch in to preserve 'the commons.' It's a private, for-profit establishment out to make money. The so-called market should take care of it. They just need to hire more people to keep the place spic-and-span, or else have customers vote for Burger King with their feet. Perhaps it was part of a secret plot: Hire fewer people in order to put pressure on the customer to look after his own garbage. At first folks might grumble a bit, but eventually they would comply and adhere to some unspoken...
Juarez and its outskirts are dotted with enormous new plants, but these are not your padre's maquiladoras: some look like Italianate palaces (Johnson & Johnson) or works of modern art (Thomson electronics). Some have in-house banks, cafeterias, spic-and-span bathrooms and, increasingly, on-site training in new technologies unfamiliar to illiterate peasants from Oaxaca. Jaime Garcia, 31, an engineer from Torreon, heads an all-Mexican team of 16 young designers at Delphi Automotive Systems' Technical Center, working on steering-column prototypes for U.S. cars due out in 2004. From his wide-windowed floor, Garcia has a panoramic view...
...while some rooms still go uncleaned, many others, like Douglas, are finding their bathrooms spic-and-span...
UNDER CLOSER scrutiny, the election results do not insure a spic-and-span state. To begin with, Roemer cannot boast of broad-based support for his administration. Because of Louisiana's backward primary system, he is entering office with only 31 percent of the popular vote, a mere 2.5 percent more than Edwards...
Cornell Coach Dan Wood, said yesterday his team "was out-shot and outplayed in the second quarter." He claimed "One shot was kind of fluky but that's the way it goes in the mud." Cornell plays on a spic-and-span poly-turf surface for their home games...