Word: flushed
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...each of his pals to raise or donate $250,000 over the next two years to help retire the party's $14.5 million debt. The DNC has met all its money targets so far this year, and expects to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But while the flush and comparatively clean GOP continues to set the pace, the Democrats have had to stay ahead of Janet Reno's Untouchables; DNC officials say they will in the next two weeks return another $1.5 million in donations identified as coming from foreign or other suspect sources, bringing the refund total...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The era of good feeling that flush government coffers brought to budget negotiations is ending as Democrats and Republicans heat up the fight over specifics of the deal. Although both houses overwhelmingly approved a final, nonbinding outline of an agreement to balance the budget by 2002, cracks in the consensus are appearing as the GOP tries to push through its version of welfare reform. Democrats were crying foul after two Republican-backed provisions passed the House Ways and Means human resources subcommittee. One would cut benefits to disabled noncitizens, while the other would deny minimum wage and workplace...
...LONDON: Flush from a $2,000 shopping spree, Los Angeles clothes designer Eileen Kadden says she was looking "classy and funky" when a Harrods security guard took offense at her 5'9", 196-pound figure and showed her the door. "It was complete discrimination against larger women," an indignant Kadden told The Times. "I was shocked and mortified." The 48-year-old Kadden, who at the time was sporting brown Lycra leggings and a loose, cactus-embroidered white shirt, dismisses as "fattism" the chic department store's response that her attire violated its strict code against extreme forms of dress...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Flush with a sudden $200 billion windfall, the Clinton Administration and Republican Congressional leaders agreed on a plan to balance the budget by the year 2002. The deal includes a net $85 billion in tax cuts over five years and could result in the first U.S. balanced budget in three decades. Negotiations went into hyperdrive on news that an unexpectedly strong economy had produced an additional $200 billion in revenues. TIME's Jay Carney says that the added money should bring many Democrats on board because it will allow deficit reduction while maintaining a level of funding...
...contemplate the impact all that random violence--wrapped up neatly in a southern Florida package and sealed with the official state police stamp of approval--had on me in my cozy home in upstate New York. Why was I suddenly checking the window locks and drawing the curtains flush with window frames? Why did the rustling of trees against the back door make me stand at attention? Is this the response shows like "Cops" really hope to elicit out here in sleepy TV land...