Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drabble focuses on a much smaller group, all of whose lives have been unpleasantly affected by political realities. Anthony Keating is recuperating from a heart attack. A go-go property speculator during the flush '60s, he has been left teetering near bankruptcy by the collapse of land prices. His friend and financial adviser, Len Wincobank, is serving a four-year prison term for fraud. Kitty Friedmann loses a foot and her husband in a random terrorist bombing. Keating's lover, Alison Murray, has a teen-age daughter jailed for reckless driving in a Balkan Communist state. "England...
...surge in big merger proposals? Primarily, says Stephen Friedman, a partner specializing in corporate marriages at Goldman,, Sachs, because many managers of giant companies find that "it is cheaper to buy than to build." Their own companies are flush with cash, and as they look around for expansion possibilities, they find numerous companies not much smaller than their own selling for less than asset value per share-so that they can afford to make an offer well above market price and still pick up a company relatively inexpensively...
...first flush of his success, Elvis lived with the crazy vigor of a good ole boy who just had the whole world tucked snugly into the back pocket of his overalls. He surrounded himself with home-town cronies, kept them fed and cared for, dispensed lavish gifts. He gave away luxury cars-particularly the Cadillacs he doted on-like gumdrops. After a while, though, the cronies became heavies-bodyguards, procurers-and the gifts bribes to buy loyalty, or silence. He courted a girl, Priscilla Beaulieu, he had met during his Army hitch. He persuaded her father to let her come...
...Watergate committee to hint at the various venal sins committed by the administration still in power. Like so many others, I drew the routine conclusion that Nixon was a paranoid scum, and wondered how much longer he would cling to the Oval Office. It took them a year to flush...
...mineral-oil base that is constantly recycled and filtered through a 500-gal. waste tank under the house; every year a truck pumps out the refuse. Others have attached fiberglass tanks full of compressed air to cut down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California families are voluntarily bathing in six gallons of water or less, then using it to water plants or wipe off dirty windows. Some are changing sheets only once every ten days to reduce...