Agnew, who was privately educated at Rugby school, and previously ran a cleaning company in Australia which mainly cleaned flats "used as brothels", made his fortune in insurance, private equity and management consultancy, where he pioneered outsourcing of labour to India.
Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother is the favourite for best foreign film, having cleaned up on the festival circuit and won a Golden Globe to boot.
In response, it cleaned up its act, and thereby lifted the bar for the entire industry.
And before that it is planted, picked, and ginned (or cleaned).
The uniform worn by his commanding officer, General Sir Richard Nelson "Windy" Gale, is now displayed in a museum that Prince Charles opened in 2000 and the old Pegasus Bridge, replaced by a new bridge in 1994 and left to rot in a field, has been cleaned up and preserved.
It sounds like a spoof: "The towels are rarely cleaned, the lightbulbs are replaced irregularly, the hotel water runs cold earlier than the guest would wish for... even the hotel sign saves energy by only having one letter lit up at night".
I went to the hospital to have the wounds cleaned on my face, shoulders, elbows, knees, hip and ankle.
In the past few months she, along with a group of children from her school, have taught her village about recycling, organised a weekly rubbish collection, cleaned up the nearby salt flats and helped to get the first toilets installed.
Having cleaned out their balance sheets, the government could then put them up for sale, or even distribute shares to all taxpayers.
It was in the days before the former mayor cleaned it up, so there was a lot of seediness going on.
An NHS manager says: "He cleaned the town up".
