1.   Filner said he has wanted the pile removed since he learned of its existence from a constituent four or five years ago.

2.   He added that the City Sanitation and Transportation Departments were willing to remove the piles of salt and asphalt.

3.   In the spring, they clean out the beds and remove piles of leaves shed by the abundant post oaks and blackjack oaks on the property around their house.

4.   The owners of the gas station were ordered to remove a pile of contaminated soil and to perform tests to see if wells had been contaminated.

5.   Volunteers and civic groups have been working feverishly to sweep the streets, remove rubbish piles, repair sidewalks and fill potholes.

6.   Bulldozers removed piles of rubble and reopened many of the roads that had been blocked by fallen rocks.

7.   But on Sunday, the paper said the Waldorf had barred its distribution and also removed piles set out in the lobby.

8.   In the northern Sarajevo suburb of Vogosca, Serbs removed piles of documents from the town hall and set them ablaze.

9.   In the northern Sarajevo suburb of Vogosca, Serbs removed piles of documents from the town hall and set them ablaze outside.

10.   In the northern Sarajevo suburb of Vogosca, Serbs removed piles of documents from the town hall Tuesday and set them ablaze.