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  • As soon as The Long Fall begins, with McGill calling in old markers and greasing NYPD palms to unearth some seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client, he learns that even in this cleaned-up city, his commitment to the straight and narrow is going to be constantly tested.

    The Long Fall by Walter Mosley: Book summary 2010

  • Here's a cleaned-up version of the email I wrote her a few days later:

    Justin Cox: Is Journalism Grad School Worth It? Justin Cox 2011

  • Except at the very end of C&A, when a cleaned-up Ford, in semiformal cowboy wear a shout out to my friend Roger Ebert complete with oddly banded cowboy hat, positively beams as he tries to take Daniel Craig's hat off to uncover his rumored forehead and eyebrows and is shot dead by Deadly Dan for his temerity.

    Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011

  • With your new cleaned-up, pared-down, more efficient wardrobe, take note of what you have and what's missing.

    Creating Your Own Clearance Rack Tina Gaudoin 2011

  • Except at the very end of C&A, when a cleaned-up Ford, in semiformal cowboy wear a shout out to my friend Roger Ebert complete with oddly banded cowboy hat, positively beams as he tries to take Daniel Craig's hat off to uncover his rumored forehead and eyebrows and is shot dead by Deadly Dan for his temerity.

    Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011

  • Except at the very end of C&A, when a cleaned-up Ford, in semiformal cowboy wear a shout out to my friend Roger Ebert complete with oddly banded cowboy hat, positively beams as he tries to take Daniel Craig's hat off to uncover his rumored forehead and eyebrows and is shot dead by Deadly Dan for his temerity.

    Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011

  • A word more on pay-as-you-go; my trip to Cruz Roja to get cleaned-up, stitched, and tetanus shot after a dog attack cost $35 pesos for the emergency room treatment and about another $100 pesos for the medicines and supplies - about $13 US around three years ago.

    Emergency Medical 2009

  • In a good market, St. Modwen sells cleaned-up "brown field" sites to residential developers in need of building sites.

    U.K. Investors Rediscover Rental Properties William Boston 2011

  • It's like the cleaned-up Times Square in New York, but without the drop in crime: Corporate, expensive and everything closes at 11pm or midnight.

    Anaheim Wants To Be Comic-Con’s New Home | /Film 2010

  • Nothing will be "fixed" unless the corrupt real estate lending business is cleaned-up.

    Bernanke: Fed's not waiting for Congress on reform 2010

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