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  • And so, in fact, they concocted a couple of early, you know, kind of founding public-health interventions in the system of the city, one of which was called the Nuisances Act, which they got everybody as far as they could to empty out their cesspools and just pour all that waste into the river.

    Steven Johnson tours the Ghost Map 2006

  • And so, in fact, they concocted a couple of early, you know, kind of founding public-health interventions in the system of the city, one of which was called the Nuisances Act, which they got everybody as far as they could to empty out their cesspools and just pour all that waste into the river.

    Steven Johnson tours the Ghost Map 2006

  • And so, in fact, they concocted a couple of early, you know, kind of founding public-health interventions in the system of the city, one of which was called the Nuisances Act, which they got everybody as far as they could to empty out their cesspools and just pour all that waste into the river.

    Steven Johnson tours the Ghost Map 2006

  • I mean to take you up on your kind offer of advice once some techies can persuade me that the Department of Hurt and Awful Nuisances for which I work, won't find me out and arm me with the world's worst pistol.

    [the abyss] inexorably down or rising above it 2009

  • Our esteemed comrades in the union have negotiated a regrading of the work roles at the Department For Hurt And Awful Nuisances, wherein I simultaneously earn and squander the taxpayer's moolah.

    [incentives] or one size fits all 2009

  • Nuisances: ooooooooooooooooohhh (but they stumped up)

    Simple Minds « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • Its Security Suite To Curb Nuisances It can be awful to have your Windows computer infected with malicious software, but it is almost as bad suffering the daily burdens imposed by the security software designed to protect you.

    Symantec Rewrites 2008

  • If Nuisances = Fact of Life, we can at least try to take a little bit of the sting out of them.

    Lesley M. M. Blume: 7 Stylish Solutions For Life's Most Hair-Raising Moments 2008

  • This little girl becomes sick and it turns out that the cesspool, that they still continue to have, despite the Nuisances Act, bordered on an extremely popular water pump, local watering hole that was well known for the best water in all of Soho, that all the residents from Soho and the surrounding neighborhoods would go to.

    Steven Johnson tours the Ghost Map 2006

  • This little girl becomes sick and it turns out that the cesspool, that they still continue to have, despite the Nuisances Act, bordered on an extremely popular water pump, local watering hole that was well known for the best water in all of Soho, that all the residents from Soho and the surrounding neighborhoods would go to.

    Steven Johnson tours the Ghost Map 2006

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