In 2002, UPS lost Whoopi Goldberg's Supporting Actress Oscar when it was sent out for cleaning.

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Many are now looking hard at Japan, following the success of Ripplewood and Christopher Flowers in buying Shinsei Bank out of bankruptcy, cleaning it up and floating it.

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Now it is time to get the drains up and start cleaning out the sewage.

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Paying for greenery upstream turns out to be cheaper than cleaning up water downstream after it has been fouled.

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If the families of the men who died cleaning up the spill seek restitution from BP, it would presumably be paid out of this fund.

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Google "did an excellent job of cleaning out the links to malware sites the night after we told them about it, " Thomas says.

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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in the mid-1980s brought in a company from Texas that specialized in putting out oil fires and began the long process of cleaning up the site and capping it.

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For advice, it sought out former regulators from the Resolution Trust Corporation, charged in the 1980s with cleaning up America's savings-and-loan (thrift) crisis, and from Securitas, which handled Sweden's banking crisis in the early 1990s.

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In front of a crowd of 16, 000, local organizers tested out such different areas as cleaning and refuse collection, transport, competitions, spectator services and IT.

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"It ranged from upgrading Novell servers to installing clients to running new cables all over the place, to cleaning out computers, " Chandley says.

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