Word: flush
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...Nussbaum, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which has represented such firms as Apollo Management and Starwood Capital in LBO transactions. "There are many buyers for practically every seller," he said. All this has left private-equity players scrambling to find the next deal while they're still flush...
...region is flush with surpluses, not deficits. Asian countries have piled up more than $3 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves. And while currencies were overvalued a decade ago, they are undervalued today. The bitter fight between Beijing and Washington over China's massive surplus and undervalued currency is just the most visible part of this phenomenon. With the numbers the region is racking up, no currency trader would bet her Starbucks latte against Asian economies, let alone put real money into attacking Asian currencies. Banks around the region have been cleaned up. The fanciful projects of a decade ago-such...
...turn away from Kim has left Chongyron, long flush with cash, now owing over $500 million; its headquarters in one of Tokyo's priciest neighborhoods was seized last month by government creditors. "I think there are a lot of people who feel less allegiance or loyalty to North Korea now," admits one Chongyron associate, who prefers to remain anonymous. "And people are distancing themselves from Chongyron because the organization cannot address the needs of the Korean community...
...object strongly to the image of the Chadian family pictured in "How the World Eats" [June 25--July 2]. While you showed other families in other parts of the world in the relative comfort of their homes and flush with food, you depicted a Chadian family in a refugee camp with meager rations. Has the whole of Africa turned into one big refugee camp, so that there isn't even one functional family that could have been pictured? The black American family pictured on the next page was cold comfort. Bukola Eleso, LAGOS...
Eating Around the World I object strongly to the image of the Chadian family pictured in "How the World Eats" [June 25-July 2]. While you showed other families in other parts of the world in the relative comfort of their homes and flush with food, you depicted a Chadian family in a refugee camp with meager rations. Has the whole of Africa turned into one big refugee camp, so that there isn't even one functional family that could have been pictured? The black American family pictured on the next page was cold comfort. Bukola Eleso, lagos...