Word: cleanly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Next door, at a VEC test site that has produced 1,000 hulls in the past year, the air is clean. It's quiet. Three technicians in smart yellow shirts and blue jeans supervise two VEC cells. One man watches a monitor that shows injection flow, temperature and pressure levels. If something goes wrong, an alarm rings in Little Falls and at the VEC solutions center, 1,400 miles south. Kirila's experts regularly tap into the Little Falls plant via the Internet to adjust production settings and troubleshoot problems...
...feeling more righteous than is good for you, you ascend purposefully and without pause to the rim and accept the silent admiration of the tourists there, who step back to let you pass. And you stride into the lodge and go to your room and shower and put on clean clothes and order a hero-size gin and tonic and sit on the balcony and look out at the canyon blazing red and orange in the sunset, and you feel a moral superiority that only time can diminish. What is a vacation for, if not to make you feel better...
...gets into a tangle now and then. "Like any organization that's run by people," he says, "it's imperfect." Turner points out that he gives quite a bit of money to the U.S. government in taxes, and the last time he checked, that was less than a lean, clean operation. He feels compelled to donate to the U.N. in part because the U.S. has not been paying its membership dues. "The U.N. has bills just like any other organization," Turner says, citing U.N.-sponsored environment and family-planning organizations as being among the recipients of U.N. largesse...
...clean up polluted brownfields --To promote accountability in schools --To give every child access to full health care within four years --To make streets safe, fight drugs and get guns out of schools and neighborhoods --To create empowerment zones --To confront and work toward solving the African AIDS problem --To fight for alternative action, end racial profiling and pass hate-crimes legislation (three pledges...
...dinner with friends who have lived in Philadelphia for decades, I asked if there were visible signs of spit-and-polish as the city prepared for the GOP convention. Oh, yes, they replied. In fact, driving from the airport into the city, one notices immediately how remarkably clean the buildings are and how well paved the road is. If someone in the car were to turn around in their seat, however (preferably not the driver) and glance backward toward the airport, one might notice a slight discrepancy: Viewed from this new angle, the buildings stand in disrepair. City leaders must...