The lobby has been swept clean, even while the chandelier above the reception desk hangs at a crazy angle.

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The Nan-Shan was being looted by the storm with a senseless, destructive fury: trysails torn out of the extra gaskets, double-lashed awnings blown away, bridge swept clean, weather-cloths burst, rails twisted, light-screens smashed and two of the boats had gone already.

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The actors sport hand-sewn satin gowns and rugged leather coats against a realistic backdrop of swampy, methane stench-ridden Five Points and the clean-swept cream-colored sidewalks of Fifth Avenue on a 212, 500 square-foot studio lot.

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Even Saverio Borrelli, the prosecutor who led the so-called Mani Pulite (Clean Hands) anti-corruption drive that swept away Italy's old political order 15 years ago, recognises that Italian investigators resort much too freely and lazily to telephone-tapping and eavesdropping.

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UMNO's "Mr. Clean", Foreign Minister Abdullah Badawi, ousted three years ago, was swept back in.

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Despite the horror stories being pitched suggesting that people in hazmat gear will be required to clean up a busted light bulb, the truth is a broken CFL bulb will be swept up (not vacuumed) just as broken bulbs have always been swept up.

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