| As the decades passed, a clamorous tropical settlement reinvented itself as a spic-and-span outpost of the developed world. |
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| Keeping their files in a spic-and-span state probably wasn't their No. 1 priority. |
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| Add to that an airy, spic-and-span restaurant and a staff willing and eager to serve. |
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| He turned the Vologda Dairy Factory into a spic-and-span milk palace. |
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| It has become, accordingly, a ruthlessly spic-and-span euphemism for downsizing the domestic industrial workforce, for pricing labor according to its cheapest foreign equivalent. |
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| And for staff and volunteers at Stoneleigh Abbey that means three weeks of painstaking work to ensure the majestic house is spic-and-span ahead of its big Easter re-opening. |
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| Minimize indoor irritants with spic-and-span floors and fresh bedding. |
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| The clients swim away spic-and-span, and the cleaners get an easy meal, which is a classic example of a mutually beneficial relationship, according to the researchers. |
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| But spring and summer are great times to get things spic-and-span. |
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