• The goal is to hold them accountable by having them scrutinize their supply chain practices to ensure that no filthy water is seeping into waterways somewhere in the process from chemical to laptop.

    FORBES: Targeting Companies That Pollute China's Waters

  • He turned up one day hungry and riding a gray horse that had a filthy blanket on his back and a rope halter instead of a bridle.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

  • For two decades, beginning in 1985, the city worked to clean up a blighted 13-mile industrial corridor along the Tennessee River, a stretch so filthy that motorists used to have to use their headlights during the day.

    FORBES: Back on Track

  • We also have to deal with events and incidents that are not only life threatening but ones that are harrowing, filthy, contagious.

    BBC: Is crime being tackled properly?

  • These vaunted protectors of our historical legacy, pieces of cloth that stand between our filthy hands and many American treasures, are ingrained in the mind as a required wear during a visit to an archive.

    FORBES: The White Glove Myth

  • The 23-year-old DJ released "Harlem Shake" last May, but it wasn't until Feb. 2 that the first video emerged featuring a silly dance to the song. (A YouTube denizen known as Filthy Frank gets that credit.) A version by a crew of Australian skateboarders established the jump-cut blueprint, and an entry by employees of Maker Studios, a digital media company, inspired other office imitators.

    WSJ: Why the Harlem Shake Matters

  • Oliver Twist also highlights the rank poverty of the inner cities - particularly when the plot moves to Jacob's Island, " the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London " where the houses were "so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem to be too tainted even for the dirt and squalor".

    BBC: News Magazine

  • Not only does it take a huge amount of water but the mixture that comes back up is filthy.

    FORBES: Obama's Shale Push may Crowd Out Green Energy

  • Being the filthy non-purists that we are, we're most excited by the camera's 720p video mode, which offers decently fast autofocus with a half press of the shutter button, and zero jelly vision to worry about.

    ENGADGET: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 hands-on, with 720p test footage!

  • Besides the advances in the development and application of modern health sciences, this has resulted from the drastic reduction in filthy and unsanitary living conditions that economic growth has made possible as well.

    FORBES: Economic Growth, Not Redistribution, Most Benefits The Poor, Working People, And The Middle Class

  • But the government is becoming increasingly concerned about the problems that pollution brings, such as sickness from filthy air and arid soil from acid rain, which has made it keen to boost the use of renewables and increase energy efficiency.

    ECONOMIST: Anti-hero

  • Thousands of people, black and white, filthy and rank with a collective energy level that ranged from zombielike to merely exhausted: Members of the crowd said they felt like animals, but the hundreds of actually animals that were there could barely muster a collective growl.

    NPR: Evacuating New Orleans �� But to Where?

  • In his first, he told weary Britons that even New York was a war casualty, driven to burning filthy soft coal and hoarding butter.

    ECONOMIST: Alistair Cooke

  • Israeli airstrikes against a Lebanese oil refinery created an oil slick that has polluted some 80 miles of Mediterranean coastline, leaving the filthy beaches deserted at the height of the tourist season.

    NPR: Divided Lebanon Wary of Hezbollah 'Victory'

  • And the report in the Sunday Mirror, more than 16, 000 patients die every year from infections picked up in Britain's filthy hospitals and then it's enunciated in the piece that it's 5, 500 outright and another 11, 000 where it's contributed to the death of these people, are those figures true?

    BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Interview with Alan Milburn

  • My initial thoughts on staph infection were that it was a disease you get in the hospital of if you live in a really filthy environment.

    FORBES: Have You Survived A Bout With Killer Bacteria?

  • In 2013, we'll surely see a few new chargers, including, I hope, some production-ready induction units that would let you juice up your ride without having to drag a thick, heavy, filthy cable out of the trunk every time.

    ENGADGET: 's CES 2013 Preview: Autos

  • The logical response is that absent the existence of City Hall officials making sure restaurants measure up to random requirements, the kitchens would be filthy, common areas unsafe or not accessible to the handicapped, and the food improperly refrigerated.

    FORBES: What The Life Of America's Best Chef Tells Us About Economics

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