The fiscal crisis has cut street-sweeping in the area by 55 percent.

There is nothing special about street-sweeping, and it can as easily be produced by the public or the private sector.

It was understandable, though; street-sweeping was probably a very high-risk profession.

(B) When I see people doing anything very, very well (from street-sweeping to brain surgery) I tell them so at once.

Although it raises fines related to street-sweeping from $30 to $45 and includes higher Circulator fares, the budget largely avoids higher taxes and fees.

In the 1980s, trucks operated by the Sanitation Department broadcast a recording of Mr. Koch reminding drivers to move aside for street-sweeping.

Hom is part of Los Angeles' Great Street-Sweeping Do-Si-Do.

But New York City officials say that holding any job - like the street-sweeping and park-cleaning positions that they assign to welfare recipients - might be the surest way out of welfare.

Road-sweeping was hardly the most exciting of spectator sports.

In theory, PD entailed anything and everything to do with the running of the base; in practice, it usually meant one hundred hours on a work squad assigned to repetitive low-grade tasks ranging from food preparation and laundry work to road-sweeping and garbage disposal.