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Denounced by a drunk teenager, the Golovins are resettled a continent away in Augean conditions.
ECONOMIST: The Soviet Union
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The upshot is that, seven years after the cleansing of the Augean stables supposedly started, Italy looks remarkably unchanged.
ECONOMIST: Unchanging Italy
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She has not broken Nigeria's culture of corruption an Augean task but she has sobered up its public finances and injected a measure of transparency.
ECONOMIST: The World Bank
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If the streets of Algiers present an Augean stable, the image is also appropriate for all of this richly endowed but mismanaged country.
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In this short span the government has made some unpalatable decisions, and it began to earn cautious international respect for tackling an Augean task.
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The current government is only the latest whose stated determination to sluice down the Augean stables of Wandsworth, Strangeways and Parkhurst has resulted in an ineffectual piddle.
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We hope, though, that when the cardinals gather to pick Benedict's successor, they consider someone able and willing to clean out the Augean Stables at the Vatican itself.
WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Papacy After Benedict
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More generally, the American people have a right to know from Mr Gore how much he intends to clean up the Augean stables of the Clinton White House.
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The other thing that leaves Republicans foaming is their belief that Mr McCain is a hypocrite, preaching about cleansing the Augean stables but then rolling in the muck himself.
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From the Republicans' viewpoint a spell in opposition could be useful: it would give them a chance to cleanse their Augean stables, temper their fealty to the religious right and get rid of the nonsense of big-government conservatism.
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