Word: flush
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...never seen before--each to be lovingly served at cellar temperature--from his collection of 350 brands, I was amused. When I mockingly smelled a glass of Spain's naturally carbonated Vichy Catalan, he admitted that waters have no smell and very little taste. I felt that flush of superiority that 60 Minutes reporters feel...
...answer that question, consider the experience of three countries: Angola, Nigeria and Gabon. The oil industries in each are at markedly different stages. Angola's is in its first explosive flush of production, with gdp expected to grow 27% this year. Nigeria is in its prime, ranking as the world's 12th largest producer in 2006. Gabon's wells are slowly drying up. Together, these three nations trace an evolving arc of oil's effect on Africa and the world, of both its promise and its perils...
...military operation in Lebanon is intended to flush out the group's fighters, including Saudis, Syrians, Tunisians, Yemenis, Moroccans as well as Palestinians. Yet the bombardment of a Palestinian refugee camp risks broadening the conflict to include other mainstream Palestinian factions such as the original Fatah group, whose Lebanon representative Sultan Abul Ainain warned "there will be uprisings in all the camps in Lebanon" if the army's indiscriminate shelling of the camp at Nahr al-Bared did not cease. Such a confrontation risks pulling in Hizballah, which, although a Shi'ite group, is closely allied with Sunni Palestinian factions...
...Lehman: almost nothing. Good has been hired by a midwestern bank to find $40 million "missing" from a $110 million telecommunications company in receivership. But the oceans of capital at private-equity funds mean that companies once left for near dead, like Barry, have more options. In this flush economy, Von Lehman says, "hedge funds just lend these troubled companies money, but they don't fix them. We don't know when that bubble's gonna burst, but they're gonna need us someday." They always...
...setting up an al-Qaeda base in Lebanon like Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The group's provocations include alleged involvement in February bus bombings in a Christian enclave, recent bank robberies and attacks on Lebanese soldiers. Government security forces are waging a military operation intended to flush out the group's 200 or more fighters, which include Saudis, Syrians, Yemenis, Moroccans as well as Palestinians. Yet the bombardment of a Palestinian refugee camp risks broadening the conflict to include other mainstream Palestinian factions as well as Hizballah - which, though a Shi'ite group at odds with al-Qaeda...