Word: flushed
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Leaving a land where toilets flush out beer, we boarded our shuttle to Cozumel, a charming island off the coast of Cancun. As Mexico's largest Caribbean island, Cozumel has retained much of its natural beauty. Even the mobs of cruise-ship tourists who whirl through the town for a day cannot spoil the islands' natural topic beauty...
...Dartboard have to say that it probably won't make a whip (or was that a majority leader?) of difference. Even as Republicans storm about Washington, D.C., flush with new-found power, Republicans at Harvard do just about nothing. You might not agree with other right-wing organizations such as the Salient and the Alliance for Life, but you have to give them credit for at least putting out a paper or putting up a poster every now and then...
Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo this morning sent thousands of troops to southern Mexico's Chiapas state to flush out the Zapatista resistance. Unconfirmed reports gauged the force at 40,000 soldiers, a much larger military action than the government has so far been willing to undertake. Thursday, Zedillo reversed Mexico's policy of trying to make peace with the Zapatista National Liberation Army by promising to help the poor. Instead, he ordered the arrest of top guerrilla leaders after accusing them of "preparing new and great acts of violence, not only in Chiapas but in other parts of the country...
...Haiti and Kuwait -- the chief reasons cited by military brass in acknowledging an eroding preparedness. The package is designed to go in tandem with his decision last month to bolster the "quality of life" for military families, including a 2 percent pay raise. Far from making Pentagon coffers flush,TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonpoints out, Clinton's new move simply takes a bite out of a projected $40 billion budget shortfall. "It reduces the pain, but it does not add to the pleasure," Thompson says. "It's not buying the Pentagon anything. But plainly the President from the start...
...That flush feeling you had earlier this year was not just spring fever. In a trend many economists see continuing, personal income in the U.S. rose during the second quarter of this year. The Commerce Department says income jumped 1.9% from April through June, compared with a 1.3% hike in the first quarter of '94. More important, your buying power increased, as prices in the U.S. went up just seven-tenths of 1% in the spring. California tops a list of 11 states that posted higher-than-average income growth during the quarter, while South Dakota was the only state...