Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Public Affection. The emissaries who manufactured this marriage should have recalled it. Instead, husband and wife set out on a pitched battle that lasts some 25 years. The prince wants to flush Caroline out of his life. Her goal is "the mental and physical destruction of my husband and the eventual isolation from him of all public affection." Politicians come to this party, the Whigs siding with the prince in the hopes of discrediting George III and the Tories. The prince spurs an investigation to show that Caroline is guilty of adultery. Cagily, she gives her pursuers ample suspicion...
...energy program (TIME, May 2) will be shipped by rail. But if other states or Congress pass laws like the one signed by Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe Jr. last week, an increasing amount will be transported by slurry pipelines. Working much like toilets, the pipelines are supposed to "flush" a slurry mixture of water and pulverized coal from mine to market. When the blend gets to its destination, usually an electric utility plant, the coal is separated from the water by filter or centrifuge and used to heat boilers. The water is used to cool the plant...
...plant and equipment. The Senate had kept this provision in the bill, as an alternate to tax credits on newly hired workers, but House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman argued successfully in conference that the extra 2% would not spur much investment, because corporations are already flush with cash...
...lights. Now that the President is more concerned with the global village, the real Clinton has stood up. Early last week the genuine town meeting was scheduled to discuss, among other items, Clinton's $6.5 million budget. The attendance: 268. Police beat the streets in an effort to flush out enough folks to reach the total of 300 needed for a quorum. No luck...
Like most people, Manhattan attorney Michael Carter looked long and hard before buying a home. Last month his winter-long search finally paid off and Carter signed for a new five-bedroom contemporary house in fashionable Fairfield County, Conn. He was not alone. With personal income rising, and lenders flush with mortgage money, Americans all across the country are streaming back into the housing market, accelerating a two-year recovery that now shows signs of ripening into an authentic boom...