Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boards of directors are flush with them, and often an attorney will take not a fee but a percentage of the deal he is drawing...
Less controversial is the law's goal of cleaning up Venice. One source of pollution is the Venetians' time-honored habit of dumping their sewage into the canals and depending on the tides to flush the city clean. To stop the filth at its source, Venice will now build its first sewage system. In addition the law provides funds to help homeowners convert their oil heating systems -which now belch sulfur oxides into the air-to nonpolluting methane gas. The switch is necessary because the sulfurous fumes mix with the salty air and rot Venice's marble...
...place is the Livermore Amador Valley of California, a community of split-level haciendas 40 freeway minutes from San Francisco. It is suburbia, the material goal men seem to have been inching toward ever since Neanderthal times. For Americans it is the last flush card of the New Deal. "We're really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food and we have a really nice home," say Mom and Dad. The statement is as matter-of-fact as a fried...
...Surge. By far the biggest strain on production is the rapid surge in demand from consumers flush with rising incomes and businessmen raking in record profits. The steel industry is working at realistic capacity for the first time since the mid-1950s. Production has climbed to an unprecedented 3,000,000 ingot tons a week. Still, mills cannot keep pace with demand. Orders placed now for sheet steel will not be filled until August; buyers of stainless will have to wait even longer. Steelmen believe that customers are buying steel now before prices go higher. Last week U.S. Steel jacked...
...Radcliffe men think they're hot stuff when they beat two-bit machines like 'Outer Space.' Wait until they run up against some big-league apparatus, like 'Straight Flush,'" Rosenbaum said...