clean up
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It also would double the amount of money insurers would have to pay for living expenses during a disaster while the homes of fire victims are being rebuilt or cleaned up.
From Los Angeles Times
He said it was immoral for the state’s leaders to allow people to live in such conditions, and pledged to clean up Skid Row within four years if he is elected governor in November.
From Los Angeles Times
He has spearheaded efforts to plant trees, clean up oceans, rivers and beaches, pay for strangers’ cataract surgeries and prosthetic limbs and has donated millions to charities such as Make-A-Wish and food banks.
But then, using technology to clean up messes made by earlier technologies is precisely what we’ve always done.
Axis Bank is a private-sector bank that has cleaned up its loan book and should be an early beneficiary of an economic pickup, he says.
From Barron's
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