Word: sweep
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They stick to your clothes, are devilishly difficult to sweep up and are lousy for the environment. Yet those ubiquitous, annoying Styrofoam pellets seem to swaddle just about every fragile object sent through the mail. Now Cal Garland, a Suwanee, Ga., lumberyard owner, has patented a machine that manufactures fluffy curls of paper-thin wood shavings that do the job just as well as polystyrene. And after the package is opened, just dump the wispy curlicues into your backyard: they also make a mighty fine mulch...
...oversaw were rightly considered the nation's worst. The police estimated that violent gangs controlled 120 of the CHA'S 167 high-rises. "People were sleeping in bathtubs to avoid gunfire," Lane says, "and until that changed, you could forget the rest." Within weeks, Lane instituted Operation Clean Sweep, which continues to this day. Backed by the police, CHA officials examine apartments looking for places in need of repair and for "unregistered guests." If "by chance we uncover weapons or drugs," Lane says with a smile, "we complain" to the trailing cops, and arrests are made on the spot...
...confines of the law. He denies suggesting that Dallas police cordon off sections of minority neighborhoods and conduct house-to-house searches for drugs and weapons, an idea that would seem prohibited by constitutional rules on searches and seizures. But reliable journalists insist that he did advocate such a sweep, and more than once. Moreover, it is of a piece with his openly stated belief that a war on drugs should be fought as a genuine, literal war. He has at various times suggested blowing up drug-carrying ships and bombing heroin producers in Southeast Asia. Perot also...
...notably in Truman's own folksy memoirs and Robert Donovan's delightfully readable two-volume history of the Truman years. What McCullough provides -- as he did for Teddy Roosevelt in Mornings on Horseback and for the Panama Canal in The Path Between the Seas -- is a sense of historic sweep. The onset of the cold war, the Marshall Plan, the seizure of the steel mills, the Korean War and the sacking of General Douglas MacArthur all read like chapters from an epic novel, and best of all is the wild whistle-stop campaign of 1948, where "Give 'Em Hell" Harry...
...Pittsburgh Penguins' clean sweep of the Chicago Blackhawks in last week's National Hockey League finals brought to a close the most turbulent season in the 75 years of the N.H.L. -- including a 10-day players' strike and an owners' attempt to boot out league president John Ziegler for insufficient p.r. savvy. But nobody noticed: everyone was tuned into the N.B.A. play-offs...