You've sent your sweaters to summer storage, stashed away your snow boots and vacuumed up five months' worth of dust under your bed.

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Among the principals were the late Gilbert Ziegler, who once claimed to be a citizen of the mythical Dominion of Melchizedeck and tried to set up an African Union Reserve System which, had it gotten off the ground, might have vacuumed up even more cash than First International.

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Special vehicles sprayed detergent on the road and vacuumed it up again.

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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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In the two years it took for Hughes to build his Las Vegas empire in the late 1960s, his bed sheets were changed only five times, his room was never vacuumed at all and the cupboards filled up with jars of his urine.

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