Word: flushes
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...about to get hit by a car, I'd yell, "Hey, environment, watch out!" I get weepy when I see a poorly rendered CGI polar bear drown. But unlike me, Cassandra was taught to spend more time actually caring than remembering that she is supposed to. We flush the toilet only when absolutely necessary, for instance. Which, in my unenlightened opinion, would mean every time we use it, especially since her being a child of hippies means we have to take a lot of vitamins and eat asparagus...
...appointment-only vip suites, where they can do everything from sip champagne to host a party while they peruse a selection of the shop's handpicked merchandise, including exclusive looks from Balenciaga and limited-edition Chanel 2.55 handbags (the only ones sold outside Chanel flagships). For the really flush shopper, there is even a $200,000 Hublot watch. "People often say that we are doing something very new and innovative, but we are only practicing good old business methods of thinking thoroughly about what customers want and providing them with the best service," says Takashita modestly...
...Aware that the elections are viewed, in part, as a referendum on the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic, the regime has launched some last-minute policies to woo voters by alleviating financial hardships by, for example, issuing a flush of gold coins and setting price caps on chicken and meat...
...Islamist movement that ruled Somalia for 6 months in 2006, and which included a significant number of foreign jihadis in its ranks. When the Ethiopians attacked to drive the Islamists out of the capital, they were accompanied by a small number of U.S. Special Forces personnel who hoped to flush out three al-Qaeda commanders responsible for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The bombers had been suspected of sheltering with the ICU. When the militants regrouped in the south, the U.S. saw its chance and launched two separate air strikes, followed by another strike from...
...while it rewired its electronics business, Philips expanded in health care and lighting. The gradual switch to greener lighting and the rising sums being spent on health care for aging populations offered Philips the prospect of steadier growth. Flush with cash from selling unwanted units, Philips has splashed more than $7 billion on lighting and health-care companies, from Genlyte, a U.S. commercial lighting-fixtures firm it bought in November for $2.7 billion--the biggest buy it ever completed--to Lifeline, a Massachusetts-based provider of home medical-alert systems...