"It's somewhat dirty, it's inconvenient and it actually costs us money, " says Ken Capano, who owns two ShopRite stores in Connecticut.
Because it's dirty, power generators want to replace it, as they pay a heavy cost if they don't.
It also explains why, for example, you recognize your car both when it's very dirty and very clean, and why you can remember where you parked your car today even though you had a different space yesterday.
Now it's all come to an end and it's a rather sad, dirty end to what was supposed to be a Disney-esque fairytale in lycra.
It's about extracting dirty and dangerous stuff from often risky places, investing eye-popping amounts and often making gob-smacking profits.
It's hard and dirty work, and in the labor hierarchy of oil rigs, roustabouts are a notch below roughnecks.
How bad is the credit crunch? it's so bad that it's making even ardent environmentalists look longingly at dirty old coal.
His view is that it's been seen as a dirty and unattractive line of work, and hasn't done much to explain what it contributes to the economy.
It's so interesting that something considered dirty and second-rate is being embraced by the industry.
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First spotted cramping in a flop sweat, it's Swinton who really gets her hands dirty and sells her soul to the devil.
For those concerned about carbon emissions, that's half way to a good news story, as gas-burning is less dirty than coal, but it's still a long way short of good for the environment.
Indeed, all the evidence suggests that when the wayward ref, Tim Donaghy, did make bad calls, he was so clever at it that the league's scrutiny failed to catch his dirty work.
But let's face it - admitting in public that you have some dirty washing to deal with is one thing.
It's rarified air for a player known more for his dirty work in front of the net than his talent for finding the back of it.
It's an escape that doesn't make you feel dirty.
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It has a dirty coffee cup in the center console that's been there I believe since 2009.
It's willing to react with just about any compound, even dirty exhaust.
Although economic success wins rewards in both systems, in clean ones, it adds 40% to a president's time, whereas in dirty ones, the rewards of growth are swamped by those of rigging, which more than doubles the time in power.
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It's no surprise that humans are doing less and less of the dirty work while they simply control robotic creatures that are actually doing the internal repairs, but a UCLA researcher has devised a ridiculously tiny "microhand" to handle even the smallest surgery-related tasks.
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"It's really important for a big company like us to get our hands dirty, " says artistic director Sean Holmes.
Other regular pilgrims to Omaha say the meeting's dirty little secret is that, with a little planning, it is not that hard to get microphone time.
With that in mind, it sounds like it's time for a movie of love, loss, big bucks and dirty dealing set in the oil sands boom town of Calgary.
It's been more than 40 years since Serge Gainsbourg, France's "dirty old man of pop" music, released his controversial album Histoire de Melody Nelson.
Some people in the industry still believe that America's need for oil is so great that it cannot afford to reject oil, however dirty, from a friendly, secure supplier.
Even then it's possible for well-intentioned banks to miss a suspicious wire-transfer request or dirty money commingled with legitimate funds.
"It's really about the two people who are making the arrangement, so if you have a really dirty job that takes six hours, maybe the other person would offer 10 hours of gardening, " Epstein said.
It will even source content off your PC over WiFi or project your laptop's display over a quick and dirty USB cable.
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Questions still remain on deck, like whether or not the video can seamlessly hand off from one screen to the other, but for now it's nice to see that Netflix on the Wii U is more than just a quick-and-dirty port.
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