Word: trashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other city news, the City Council yesterday held a hearing on a proposal to enter Cambridge into a state-run recycling program that would require all residents to separate recyclable trash from other rubbish...
...weekend cleaning woman at the Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, the clear plastic bags on the floor of the computer room looked to be full of trash. She thereupon heaved them into a bin that was taken to a garbage- compaction area. But the following Monday, Continental's data processors discovered they were short $227 million in checks that the bank had honored but not yet entered in its computers. A crew of janitors then began searching the immediate area, to no avail. Finally, after an anxious hunt, they located the documents in the compaction room amid bundles of wastepaper...
Although President Derek C. Bok is a decent, thoughtful man, his greatest fault is not an insatiable yen for fairness. The president is a skillful showman who gets a lot of mileage out of his trash-finding trots through the Yard...
...Christmas party at Massachusetts Hall, home to Harvard's central adminstration, coworkers gave President Derek C. Bok a pike and matching garbage bag to boost efforts to pick up trash in the Yard. Whether Bok ever used these implements remains unknown even to this day; either way, it's clear that the University he governs is concerned not only with its physical look, but also its reputation...
...Adopting Madjid's point of view, the camera travels down the road. Ahead, it spots Pat. Freeze-frame. The final photograph of this film--Pat leaning back and waving, his hair blown back by the salt breeze--is worth sitting through two hours of the most boring piece of trash in the world. After this film, it's just a tremendous and appropriately brilliant finale...