When pipes get blocked, cleaning "balls" -- wooden or metal spheres 3, 5 and 10 feet in diameter -- are released to open up a way.
Three times a day, city workers move through a 30-block area cleaning the pavement with high-pressure hoses, rousting squatters and taking away shopping carts filled with refuse or personal belongings.
If the damper seems blocked, try cleaning it.
Many of the Korean workers in Australia are employed on construction sites, building residential apartments or office blocks, or by cleaning companies who have contracts to clean city offices overnight.
Their activities generally consisted of "walking around the block, cooking, gardening, cleaning and that sort of thing," said Laura Middleton, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and lead author of the study, which was published last week in Archives of Internal Medicine.
It is almost as though someone asked AEP what it wanted for Christmas, because it's shopping wish-list legislation in Congress to block EPA from cleaning up toxic air pollution that threatens hundreds of thousands of Americans.
A poem that can be written in prose isn't a poem, so don't follow the method of writing a huge block of prose, cleaning it up, and then cutting it arbitrarily into lines.
Con Edison has a program of rewelding old seams, but these repairs, which involve digging up streets, blocking traffic and cleaning up asbestos that lines some pipes, can cost $40,000 per weld.
One resident, Yousef Grada, 35, has been cleaning the city, block by block.
For compulsives who dare to, there is now a knife block that opens for cleaning.
