Word: flushes
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...latest push to gain control of the city, U.S. forces man what amount to a string of inner-city garrisons across town, offering training and support to small groups of Iraqi police who warily walk the surrounding streets. The patrols rarely venture far. The blocks around the compounds are flush with insurgents who watch the movements of Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops, waiting to attack at unpredictable moments...
...fates for a better life, and a hesitant supplication to purchase. Sometimes, there's a toddler asleep atop the cart, his or her head pillowed perhaps on a copy of Angkor - Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples. Upward of a million visitors a year - backpackers, pensioners, Tomb Raider aficionados, newly flush Eastern Europeans and large groups of Buddhists from Japan and Korea - come to gawp at Angkor Wat. Looming, enduring and vast, it is just one of a host of exquisite temples in the area. But by the end of the day, both culture vultures and common-or-garden tourists...
...sees a parallel with the revolutionary effect the 45 r.p.m. single had on popular culture in the '60s. "It suddenly liberated music because people only had to have one good idea," he says. "And it only had to to last 2 1/2 minutes." Thoughts like this seem to flush Eno with fresh enthusiasm and optimism that the world is catching on to his ideas. The randomness, uncertainty and unknowability he explores in his art are, he says, demonstrated daily in life by the failure of political planners and strategists to predict, let alone solve, the world's problems...
...arrive in New Delhi for the World Economic Forum's annual India Economic Summit, India is ending decades of isolation. Indian companies have returned to global commerce. Indian-born business executives are climbing the corporate ladders at well-known multinationals, some to the highest rungs. Meanwhile, Indian companies, flush with cash from a booming domestic economy, are prowling for overseas acquisitions to expand their footprints. The most recent headline grabber was last month's $8.1 billion bid by Tata Steel for Anglo-Dutch steel manufacturer Corus, and there have been many smaller deals as well. In February, Hyderabad-based drugmaker...
Fifteen years ago, in the flush of his Gulf War triumph, President George H.W. Bush crowed to state legislators, "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all." But now, as Washington's wise men look for a way out of a situation in Iraq , the symptoms of that malady seem to be reappearing. Asked in the Rose Garden in June if he saw a parallel between Iraq and Vietnam, the President replied curtly, "No." But he is now embracing the inevitable, and he answered yes last week when asked roughly the same question at the Sheraton...