The first time Ally caught her doing it, she arrived home early one lunchtime, and when she came in the back door Mum looked up with a guilty face from washing dishes at the sink.

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The company wants to show that, given the right information and incentive, people will be willing to cut the amount of water they consume for, say, taking showers, washing dishes and keeping the grass green.

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Lei Pengcai, 61, moved to Beijing last year from a small town in Hunan province and took work washing the dishes in a restaurant.

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No wonder Beth gets into a lather washing the dishes as she watches him.

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Here in Ann Arbor, I was hostess at a long-gone bar on South U., worked at a store that sold Greek stuff to the sorority and fraternity set, and in probably my worst job ever was a floater at the Mongolian BBQ on Main Street, where I rotated between washing dishes and filling up the buffet with raw meat.

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So, he grabbed the spray cleaner, a rag and started wiping up and washing dishes.

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He earned money washing dishes at a sorority house and unloading freight at the railroad station.

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Like migrant labourers everywhere, they do the dirty, dangerous and demeaning jobs that no one else wants: washing dishes, laying bricks and tending oil palms in the muggy equatorial air.

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City officials are asking residents to turn off their sprinkler systems and postpone washing dishes and clothes, according to a message on the city government's website.

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Ironically, it is the second wave, the balseros, who are behaving like most Latino immigrants: washing windscreens and dishes, or hanging round construction sites, in the hope of blending seamlessly into their new country.

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