Rather than laboriously pick off cheats one by one, it's going after bad tax preparers for their customer lists and making big sweeps.
When Reeve was out sweeping and queried the decision, he was told: "Bad cricket – sweep shot not good.
The worst-hit areas will have some respite from rain today but the crisis looks set to continue as more bad weather sweeps in.
It becomes clear only in retrospect, for instance, that "Hope," that despairing poem — which speaks of "the always tabled / righting of the present" — is part of the same sequence that includes "Bad Patch," "Swept Up Whole," and "Relief," each observing a moment in the trajectory of a marriage or love affair.
The bad news: Sweeps are no longer as important as they once were.
BlackRock was already advising the government on the shredded balance sheet of Freddie when the feds stepped in on Sept. 7, 2008, but the vortex of bad news swept in everyone, including, of course, Lehman Brothers.
Even in this era, which pre-dated social media by more than 30 years, a whirlwind of bad news swept the airwaves, as we graduated.
The revelation has angered a nation tired of leaders who try to sweep bad news under the rug to, according to a popular euphemism, "avoid confusion".
Whatever the reasons, however, in recent years some of us have watched in horror as obviously bad ideas somehow sweep elite opinion.
Stashed among nylon fishnets, liana roots, a radio and metal pots, a whisk broom of leaves emerged, pulled out by Maruca, who claimed it would sweep bad spirits out of my body.
Peter Morici, professor at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, says we still need a bad bank to sweep away the toxic assets and bad loans.
