The goal of the advert was to restore the passion and romance to the railway, to scrub out memories of Hatfield, delays and commuting and replace them with a taste of Brief Encounter.

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"Surgeons need to stay sterile, but they also need access to patient records, images, scans, X-rays and MRIs, " said Jamie Tremaine, chief executive of Toronto-based GestSure, adding that they sometimes have to scrub out and scrub back in to access records.

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At Tom Price, Rio Tinto's biggest mine in the area, managers point out scrub-covered hillsides whose cultural significance they are debating with the authorities.

ECONOMIST: Mining

Veata threw on my robe, and I quickly pulled on some boxers and scrub bottoms and went out to the other room, shirtless, to see what the problem was.

NEWYORKER: Swimming

The scrub removal was carried out in 2011 but it has taken until now for the benefits to be seen as the plant takes two years to flower from seed, he said.

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He got out and went behind some scrub and took a leak.

NEWYORKER: Fiction

It took a long time to clean up our classrooms especially the vinyl mats that we had to scrub the mud, dry them outside and roll them out again in our classes.

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It takes about an hour to scrub her down and she lays on her side, poking her trunk up out of the water and adjusting her ears to allow her handlers better access.

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He also pledged to end no-bid contracts in Iraq, root out waste and abuse in entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, require every Cabinet member to scrub department budgets "line by line, " and reinstate a "pay as you go" rule from the 1990s.

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