Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silent, as if they're in an ice-cold grave. There have been no bear tracks for 20 days. God and Lady Nature have whispered in their ears and they're in absolute hibernation. My prayer is for snowflakes aplenty and rain in abundance. All these flush toilets man has created gobble up the water. To find a decent spring a digger must go down 100 feet in the valleys. Nature is telling us that man's abuse is killing the environment." Others will no doubt draw different lessons. But in a week of Inauguration...
When he launches into one of his droll, deadpan stories, Brady's Buddha-like face tries to conceal an impish grin, with all the success of a novice poker player hiding a royal flush. He relishes answering questions by formulating quotable one-liners and piling adjectives upon metaphors. Occasionally, when he crosses the line from irrepressibility to irreverence, Brady gets into trouble. Once, aboard the campaign plane as it flew over a Louisiana forest fire, he gleefully shouted: "Killer trees! Killer trees!" The reference to Reagan's campaign gaffe about the contribution of trees to air pollution grounded...
...number are simply finding that the market is less bullish. Furthermore, 18 minor-league players were drafted by big-league clubs during last week's meetings; a year ago, just ten players were selected. The Oakland A's-reviving under General Manager-Manager Billy Martin and flush with funds since Skinflint Owner Charlie Finley sold the team to Levi Strauss Chairman Walter A. Haas Jr. last summer-have passed up the free-agent market in favor of acquiring minor-league clubs to develop young players. Other clubs are following suit...
...allies to go bankrupt. True, North Korea defaulted on a Western loan in 1975, but bankers attributed Moscow's failure to bail out Pyongyang to Sino-Soviet rivalry. The Kremlin has helped Poland in the past and could do so again, for example, and today it is flush with funds. Thanks to foreign sales of gold and oil, the Soviets have paid off $2.5 billion in private bank loans. Thus far, however, they have shown no inclination to bail out the Poles. A Polish default on foreign loans might give Moscow an excuse to tighten its hold...
...business office of the future are prospering lavishly. Sales are already approaching $30 billion annually and are expected to leap to nearly $100 billion a year by 1990. In addition to such giants as IBM, Xerox and Honeywell, the field is filling up with a host of newcomers. flush with billions in oil profits, Exxon Corp. has entered the market with its new unit, Exxon Office Systems Co., which is manufacturing and selling a range of desktop word processing devices. The company's QWIP transceiver sends and receives over regular telephone lines facsimile reproductions of charts, graphs, text...