Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stiffed by customers is common for Russian utilities and other businesses in the brash new age of no-holds-barred capitalism. If anything, the company may be less plagued than others, since its center of operations is in Moscow, where business is booming and power consumers are presumably more flush...
...timing--as usual--was impeccable. In 1991 Argentina's battered economy turned around; an independent currency board has maintained a rock-solid one-to-one parity between the peso and the U.S. dollar, which in turn encouraged Soros to increase his investment; it totals around $250 million. Flush with cash, IRSA has been on a buying spree, investing in everything from a $50 million sports complex to major office buildings to $450 million worth of swank shopping malls. In the posh ski resort of San Carlos de Bariloche in the Andes, IRSA joined with Citicorp to buy the deluxe Hotel...
...work earned fame around the world, money poured in from individual and corporate benefactors. Mother Teresa never worried about funding the many expanding activities of her order. "The Lord sends it," she once said. "We do his work; he provides the means." The order is reportedly flush with cash, though no outsider knows the exact wealth in its coffers. In India alone, revenue officials say, the group's assets exceed $41 million, which is largely in real estate...
...wife gently changed the subject. It was true there were many bills to pay, and there would be no bonuses from this mission. Unlike their American counterparts, Russian cosmonauts are paid bonuses when they do something right. A successful orbital flush, for instance, could mean a down payment on a toaster or a bribe for a telephone, while a high-profile docking could send a child through college. Larissa wasn't sure whether there were corresponding disincentives for failure, but she (and of course the neighbors) couldn't help noticing how vague Vasily had been on the subject...
...LaBute, 34, a playwright making his debut as screen auteur, the flush of anger is a careermaking dream. "I'm more than happy that people are polarized," he says. "I'd much rather have somebody hate my movie than be indifferent about it." He would get his wish if he listened to TIME film critic Richard Schickel: "Other pictures that have broken out on the basis of sociological buzz, like Thelma & Louise, had appealing characters confronting interesting issues in suspenseful or comic fashion. But here all we are dealing with is sociopathic behavior that has no real-world resonance...