The worst offenders, McEwen says: People who perspire on the workout machines and weights and don't clean up after themselves.
Younger workers are having a harder time finding and keeping a job because older workers won't clean out their desks.
But if hospitals don't clean up their act, they could become the next big target for plaintiff lawyers, Betsy McCaughey says ominously.
"It could be from dispensing with a hand that wasn't clean or using wet rags to wipe down the machine, " Godard said.
The legislation doesn't clean anything -- it's merely a device to warn people of potential hazards associated with swimming in our coastal waters, the bill's advocates say.
"We don't have clean drinking water in some areas of our district, " Mr. Vidak says.
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But diesels have a tough time passing our emission regulations because the diesel sold here isn't as clean as the diesel sold in Europe.
So he's got the oil and gas part, but he doesn't have the clean energy part.
"I don't think it gives them clean hands, but I don't think there's any smoking gun, either, " he said.
And no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't reach around to clean my back.
Furthermore taxpayers wouldn't be left to clean up any messes, as they were forced to in 2008.
"This is a good step forward, but I don't think it can clean up the problem alone, " he says.
I'm not saying we don't need green tech, whatever that really is, or that we don't need more "clean" energy, whatever that really is too (I have to note that all new energy technologies are almost always cleaner than old, regardless of the primary source).
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He told Oprah he didn't think it was possible to win the Tour clean and that he didn't fear getting caught.
Mr. EDWARD WILKES (Parent): They didn't have any bleach to clean the bathrooms with.
The branding printed on the side is sophisticated and doesn't detract from the overall clean look.
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It's not surprising that creative performers bristle at being labeled, even if being accused of working clean doesn't sound so harsh.
Today, the electricity we use is carried along a grid of lines and wires that dates back to Thomas Edison, a grid that can't support the demands of clean energy.
"The entrenched interests want to protect the status quo, and the apologists for those interests want to say they can't have effective energy and clean air at the same time, " said Gore spokesman Chris Lehane.
To get a better sense of what "clean tech" is and isn't, Forbes.com spoke with Ron Pernick, the founder of Clean Edge research firm and co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution.
The policy can't work without the subsidies for clean energy that Mr Paterson wants to see scrapped.
But his fight to maintain his clean reputation wasn't over, including a criminal investigation launched by federal prosecutors.
One wishes our countrywomen didn't have to go out and clean house for other people, but such is the economic reality.
The mega-banks that financed the fossil fuel era aren't well matched to the emerging clean energy economy, which is more decentralized.
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