Those include cleaning drains along the tracks and, at one station, installing temporary pumps.
On being sacked, you would get to trundle your suitcase into a Job Centre Plus, where – after a short lecture about flexible labour markets – Iain Duncan Smith's people would set you to work cleaning drains for minimum wage.
She stays for nearly an hour talking to Shyama about her husband, who works cleaning drains; her malnourished one-year-old who still hasn't learnt how to sit up; and her seven-year-old, who, in between working as a rag-picker (plastic-bag collector), takes sole responsibility for the seriously ill baby while his parents work.
Workers power-washing roads and cleaning drains,6 topsoil being removed and stored,7 even banners and signs declaring businesses are once again open and looking for customers8 are all visible.
Bio-engineering constructions and roadside drainages will obviously be more efficient if routine and preventive maintenance are planned with the community (e.g., cleaning drains, cutting and caring for plants, etc).
I often wonder if plumbers reach a point in their career, after cleaning clogged drain after clogged drain, that they begin to hate plumbing.
In "It Takes a Woman," Vandergelder and a male chorus sing their belief that cleaning a drain and shoveling snow are among "the sweet things in life" a woman can bring a man.
A skeleton that was discovered last week by city workers cleaning out drain pipes in a Queens park has been identified as that of a woman who disappeared 10 years ago, and detectives have now reclassified her case as a homicide, the police said.
After cleaning a drain or getting rid of old fruit, peppermint extract will drive the fruit flies away.
I wondered if it had suffered from a failure to mind the public interest: cleaning the drains, picking up the garbage, respecting the rule of law.
