It has instead represented the more recent impulse in our politics to sweep uncomfortable events out of the news, move forward in the Twitter news cycle, or grind it down into no more than partisan pettiness.
This story unfolded in February 2006, with a furor like that of one of those summer thunderstorms that periodically sweep across the nation's capital, seeming to arise out of nowhere, building rapidly to a loud and frightening climax, and then moving out again, leaving Washingtonians to wonder what had hit them.
Besides, who's going to cut the grass, or sweep the litter out of the parking lot, or empty the outside trash barrels?
Word out of spring training is that after an infielder disintegrated into a cloud of dust while in the batting cage, the coaching staff had to sweep what was left of him into a pan and hope the trainers could figure out what to do.
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The issue for Dell, which lacks the sweep of an IBM or a Hewlett Packard, or even the range of a Cisco, is to figure out how much it can legitimately stake out, and with whom it can partner.
Collina insisted he was not disappointed - despite missing out on the chance to referee the "clean sweep" of the Olympic final (1996), Champions League final (1999), World Cup final (2002) and European Championships final.
Because for a moment it looked as if the party would sweep the old order out of its path, people flocked to it from well beyond its Islamist core.
But after he was out top-edging a reverse sweep off Patel to Ambrose, the rest of the batting line-up struggled to provide Powell with sufficient support.
It is one thing for a rogue group of coaches to run out of control, it is another for the governing body to sweep it under the rug.
The government's great mistake, it said, was in trying to second-guess the market by deciding, when it set out the broad sweep of airport policy in 2003, when and where new runways should be built.
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When the final numbers come out for the Giants four-game sweep of the Tigers on Fox, expect them to come in at a record or near-record low.
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