"Teachers enjoy having cleaner kids and having cleaner books to mark," she said, but added that the problem has not been helped by similar taboos in the west: the UN secretary-general first used the words "open defecation" in a speech in 2012.
Cronyism and kleptocracy are waning in many countries, and midsize companies are starting to realize that they can sell to a strategic buyer for a better price with cleaner books.
His latest novel, My Revolutions, a tense thriller in which the revolutionary certainties of the early 1970s collide with the compromises of the late 1990s, is a tauter, cleaner book than the works that made his name.
In cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, customers have begun treating shopping bags as disposable purses that can be reused for weeks, if not months, to carry laundry to the cleaners, books to the beach or lunch to the office.
This approach allows the division of informal care into several tasks and thus to value informal care time with different average wages which can be based on the hourly rates for nurse's aides, cleaners, book-keepers, and social workers [ 51].
"This has been driven by thorough cost control; a comparatively cleaner loan book; and the successful integration of Bradford & Bingley and Alliance & Leicester," said JP Morgan.
That's the sort of advice most firms are getting these days: Scrub those books cleaner than clean.
My dad always preferred to bring a box of inarguably dry Italian cookies to his dry cleaner, or a book from his nightstand to the shoe repair guy, or a framed photograph to a contractor before any work was done.
As with its existing service in its home market, in the UK Homejoy has been spending the last several weeks amassing a network of cleaners for its books, vetting them with interviews and cleaning tests.
Stock the classroom with a wide variety of materials for creative play, including clay, paint, colored pencils, sand, pails, shovels, molds, stamps, stickers, putty, play dough, chalk, crayons, markers, construction paper, pipe cleaners, games, puzzles, books, blocks, string, Styrofoam and more.
I tarried in the book section, impressed that there was so much to do besides write: book canvasser, cleaner, coverer, cutter, finisher, jogger, mender, packer, and sewer.
