Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of Von Raab's positions are extreme by any standard. He told TIME that he would support sending U.S. troops to Latin America to clean out the Medellin cocaine cartel -- preferably with the Colombian government's permission but without it if necessary. "People talk about sovereignty," says Von Raab, "but what about our sovereignty? They are chemical-weapons factories. They fly poison out and drop it on shopping malls...
...hard times for lovers; in the age of AIDS and the palimony suit, an affair of the heart seems less a matter of chemistry than of medicine and law and politics. The pattern now, it appears, is boy meets girl (or sometimes boy), quizzes on sexual history, comes clean with an update on his own antisocial diseases and puts it all down in writing, for the lawyers. Precoital tristesse, in short. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? O.K. But remember that in 1989, summer days are apt to be murky with smog, uncomfortably hot thanks...
...instability for the first time in decades. At the very least, the Liberal Democrats cannot hope to regain their majority in the upper house for at least six years. Some analysts believe the defeat may even prove salutary. Says an American official: "The voters were sending a specific message: Clean up your act, not We're through with...
Like Lady Macbeth, Exxon has learned to its sorrow that some stains cannot be easily scrubbed away. Exxon said last week that it will have to spend $1.28 billion, or ten times as much as initial projections, to clean up the 11 million gal. of crude oil that the supertanker Exxon Valdez spewed into Alaska's Prince William Sound last March. The surprising estimate, which did not take into account potential penalties or lawsuit settlements, made the Alaskan disaster one of the most expensive industrial accidents ever...
...gilded mirror. As Ephron says, "People who live in cities aren't in car chases. We don't get shot at. What we mainly do is talk on the phone and have dinner." Her film and sex, lies serve up the urban scene at its most urbane. Clean taxis and great apartments appear in a trice, and no one's upscale job deprives him of quality time for soul scratching. But in both films the surface prettiness is just a device; it clears the cityscape of its daily detritus to focus on what matters: love, sex and friendship...