Word: flushes
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...insightful discussion of health policy. For the average reader, though, a treatise on toilets (or the lack thereof) can be simply too much to stomach. A series of articles was plenty on this topic; reading a whole book on the subject is an ordeal by ordure. Our advice: Flush...
Presciently, the high-end Japanese bathroom-fixtures manufacturer Toto chose a time when the economy is circling the drain to launch its newest product - a $5,000 commode with a super-efficient flush. The Neorest 550 seems at first a senseless money tank, but at a swellegant downtown New York City launch party last week, the press and interested parties were almost persuaded that this fixture is more than a very dear john - if used right, it's good for the environment and it could even save you money. How? Consider the following...
...save on water. You get to choose how much flush you need: one button for a tinkle, another for after a Thanksgiving dinner and perhaps both several times for when you have contractors in the house. Americans have not taken to dual-flush toilets, as they are known, says Toto's New York sales rep, Kurt Raabe, because the early models were substandard. "There were some guys who were having trouble making the 1.6 gallon model work for them," he says. "That's how Toto got its foot in the door in the U.S. It has the best flushing toilet...
Perhaps that's why sales of economy cars like the Hyundai Accent or Kia Rio, which people need whether the economy is flush or bust, remain steady. Sales dropped slightly last month at Halleen Kia in North Olmsted, a Cleveland suburb. But so far in October they're back to normal, even as credit tightens, says general manager Eric Halleen. "People who might have qualified for an 84-month loan this summer are getting cut back to 62 months," Halleen says, "but we're still able to get deals done...
...rained down home foreclosures and other calamities on Florida, slapping the slack-jawed face of a youth cohort that until now had never experienced a downturn. During the extended Florida boom of the past two decades, says Scher, "young people here grew up thinking this state was always flush, always on the upswing. Now there's a sense that something is burning here." Moller says he's seeing more Florida college seniors moving toward the Democrats as a result. "I feel like my dad did when he graduated in 1976," during another period of economic malaise, he says. "We feel...