Word: flush
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...Japan's charm offensive is taking shape on several fronts. Cash-flush Japanese banks, which have only just emerged from their own decade-long debt crisis, are infusing money into distressed companies such as Morgan Stanley. Japan Inc. is going on another of its famous investment sprees abroad, opening factories and representative offices across Africa and Asia. In October, the country's central bank even offered part of its nearly $1 trillion in reserves to financially strapped nations like Iceland. In November, Japan also expressed willingness to lend up to $100 billion to the International Monetary Fund...
Even so, the Fontainebleau facelift - which in all fairness began three years ago, when Miami and the country still felt flush - is an impressive, lovingly detailed restoration of a national architectural treasure, right down to the lobby's signature, bowtie-shaped marble floor tiles. And the hotel's prices actually compare favorably to other upscale U.S. resorts. When the economy rebounds, say the Fontainebleau's new proprietors, the resort will still be what it was in the 1950s and 60s, a stage where even the middle class can see and be seen...
...silver lining - for consumers anyway - may be discounted goods at the 155 outlets that the chain announced late last week it would close. JPMorgan's Christopher Horvers reported flush inventory and 10% off everything from TVs to notebook computers. Good luck finding a salesperson...
...Using so much water per flush unnecessarily increases the volume of our waste and the cost of its transportation and treatment, ecologists say. If you don't put waste in water in the first place, then you don't have to spend money to remove it at the back end. The process also leaves a huge carbon footprint, says Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters. In the UK, she says, "the sewage system uses as much energy as what the largest coal fire station in the [country] produces" - about...
...many people, this is just hot air. "We have the luxury of flushing the toilet and just seeing it disappear," says George. The industry is stalled not only by that convenience, but by taboo. "People are uncomfortable talking about their own waste." It may have been quite some time since relating the adventures of your most recent bowel movement has constituted acceptable fodder for conversation, but nevertheless, says George, our 'bodily products' have to come back into the conversation somehow, if we are ever going to flush away the flush...