Word: flush
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Naturally I told them to flush the radiator,” Davis said...
...Saving Social Security. Nursing Medicare. Boosting homeland defense - this one gets included to keep Democrats seeming current - and education, and reining in Bush's rapacious energy program. And putting them all up against tax cuts as a simple choice: Invest in America's future - the fiscally sound way - or flush it all down the drain. These issues have polled positively for Democrats since Bill Clinton, and their Republican colleagues still haven't grown any Bush coattails. And if Daschle figures if he can play tax cuts to a stalemate when Republicans have the House and the White House, he might...
Even before Sept. 11, the airline industry was in trouble. The weak economy was cutting sharply into business travel, whose high-margin tickets account for nearly 80% of industry profits. Costs were skyrocketing, pushed by labor contracts negotiated in flush times. And now travelers, worried about security and wary of delays and hassles at airports, are looking for any excuse not to fly. Upshot: airlines have cut flights 20% from pre-Sept. 11 levels, yet planes still flying are at just 65% of capacity, compared with an estimated 73% before the terror attacks...
...Harvard 35, Yale 7. The Crimson are going to flush the Bulldogs down the Yale Bowl...
...flush with pride and ready for their just desserts, suppporters will flock in even greater numbers to watch Harvard crush the hapless Elis this Saturday, to share in savoring the first Harvard-Yale victory in four long years...