Word: flush
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...Health care is always a leading concern to voters, so when times are flush, governors and legislators are happy to expand Medicaid with all the extra money in their coffers. It wasn't always this way: when Lyndon Johnson first proposed the concept, Medicaid was designed as limited health coverage for Americans on welfare. At that time, more than a third of Americans didn't have any form of health insurance. Medicaid was a welcome solution. But as health care costs skyrocketed over the last 15 years, Medicaid wasn't providing enough help. Many Americans who weren't on welfare...
...main reason is to get stock prices up," says Steven Kaplan, a finance professor at the University of Chicago. When times were flush, mergers allowed companies to increase earnings and inflate their share prices quickly. But mergers often create strange hybrids - like power companies trying to sell insurance - and anticipated economies of scale often don't materialize. So now, "there is a trend away from conglomerates, there is a distaste for them because there is a lack of clarity and transparency, and they often fail to deliver diversification benefits," says Steve Russell, U.K. strategist at HSBC Investment Bank. Corporations...
...weeks U.S. forces had been watching as Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters gathered south of Kabul. Code-named Operation Anaconda, the battle plan aimed at this force was a hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce...
...weeks U.S. forces had been watching as Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters gathered south of Kabul. Code-named Operation Anaconda, the battle plan aimed at this force was a hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce...
...French government balked at opening its household electricity market to foreign competition. French officials in Brussels cited the recent California energy crisis and the Enron scandal as evidence of the perils of opening up the sector to privatization. Strange then that the French national electricity company EDF, flush with cash from its virtual domestic monopoly, has been snapping up energy utilities in countries where the market has already been opened...