Word: flushed
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Still Testing. The energy crisis is indirectly intensifying the arms boom. Middle East nations, flush with fast-mounting oil revenues, are gobbling up military hardware to brandish against Israel and, occasionally, each other. Iran, which fought in a brief border clash with Iraq a few weeks ago, bought $2 billion in ships, planes and missiles from the U.S. last year. Within the past few months, it has ordered $900 million worth of Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighters, and it is negotiating with McDonnell Douglas Corp. to buy 50 F-15 Eagle fighters, a model so new that...
...organ of enormous complexity. While a sophisticated electronic computer can store and recall some 100 billion "bits" of information, for example, the capacity of the brain seems infinite. The computer can make out a payroll, compute the trajectory of a spacecraft or figure the odds against drawing a straight flush far faster than any human. But the computer is, after all, a machine, capable of doing only what its human builders tell...
When times are flush, the life of a trucker can be good-not easy, but good...
...countryside flashing by, the air conditioning and stereo on, old buddies to meet at the next truck stop, a good load in back and the promise of maybe $20,000 in profit at the end of the year-a man could do worse. But times now are anything but flush, and the truckers have suddenly turned into the angriest and most disruptive group of protesters in the nation...
What better barge on which to ride out male climacteric than McGee's houseboat Busted Flush (won in a poker game), with its pasha's bed, four-nozzle shower, 1,100-mile range and capacious tanks full of nostalgia and contempt? This time MacDonald gives McGee and his brainy friend Meyer (a retired financier who lives aboard the good ship John Maynard Keynes) some fine autumnal soliloquies...