But he also agrees that good forest management thinning overgrown tree stands, or making use of selective fire as a housecleaning tool in the forests may help tamp down a probable upward trend in the severity of fires.Easier said than done.
And in a frenzy of housecleaning, GM has recalled another 2m vehicles in America alone.GM looks set to accept moral, if not legal, responsibility.
America is in the grip of the biggest housecleaning since the Depression a housecleaning that has already closed investment banks and shrunk pension portfolios, and is now rippling through the real economy.
Perhaps this time the housecleaning can be thorough.
Meanwhile, GM must contend with the crushing burden of health-care costs for current and retired workers: $4 billion a year, roughly $2,000 for each vehicle it makes in America.Still, at least Detroit's bosses have been doing some intensive housecleaning: closing plants, shedding surplus workers and making big gains in productivity.
At this rate they won't earn their boy-scout's badge for housecleaning.
An anti-corruption drive, predictably described by the media as "housecleaning", has seen her sack many of the mediocre men she inherited, and raise the share of women in her cabinet above a quarter.
Barring new revelations, he may go in a wider cabinet shuffle expected early in the new year.In this section Cleaning the Brasília pork factory Shifting sands Peaks and troughs A surfeit of MPs ReprintsThe faxina ("housecleaning"), as Ms Rousseff's removal of allegedly light-fingered ministers has come to be known, is popular.
This housecleaning was a bid to shore up support among panicky donors and superdelegates.
For one historian of the post-war period, Kishi's remarkable rehabilitation made him "the epitome of Japan's pre-war and post-war political 'continuity'—Japan's failure, in other words, to perform a thorough political housecleaning after the war".
The novel's middle "Time Passes" section focuses on the empty house during a 10-year hiatus and the last-minute housecleaning for the returning Ramsays.
