Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EXCISE TAX. The import tariff would be scrapped as soon as Congress approves excise taxes on oil and natural gas. Administration economists maintain that the energy companies are so flush with surplus oil nowadays that they would be forced to absorb some of the cost of the tax. Yet much of it would be passed on to customers, probably in the form of a rise of 5? per gal. or so in the retail prices of gas, heating oil and other petroleum products. An equivalent tax on natural gas would be about 50? per 1,000 cu. ft. Through...
...outdistance self-defeat. He managed to kick heroin during his only prison term and has stayed off it since he got out three years ago. But he takes in coke, pot and wine as naturally as most people breathe. He is also a clothes junkie, and whenever he is flush after a few muggings, the money goes in an endless effort to look "fly." Platform shoes are a hazard to his trade, since fast getaways are critical, but he wears them even when mugging because "they are the style...
...would measure from 1,698 ft. to 3,000 ft. in length, would lie on the seabed, held firmly in place by steel cables anchored to concrete pilings. Most of the time they would remain flat, allowing ships to pass over them into the lagoon and normal tides to flush the waters...
...ever got around to bringing water to the pipes, and when the six-month-old generator was broken by an inebriated 16-year-old, it was never repaired. So skeletal street lamps now cast dark shadows across the boardwalk and it takes three trips to the river to flush a toilet once...
BELEAGUERED BOUTIQUE. When Barbara Edlund opened her bath-accessories boutique The Royal Flush on San Francisco's Union Street 16 months ago, a two-roll package of campy printed toilet paper sold for $1.25. Today the same package sells for $2-a price that Mrs. Edlund concedes is "ridiculous." She is merely passing along to customers astronomical wholesale price increases on a wide variety of items; for example, an importer of bamboo magazine racks has recently doubled the price to $8. The prices are discouraging many potential buyers and Mrs. Edlund has fired her only salesgirl. Though her husband...