Word: flushes
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...COMPANIES DRILL MORE WELLS? Oil and gas companies are flush with profits, so they could afford it. Exxon Mobil alone earned nearly $10 billion in the third quarter, a record for any U.S. firm. But companies seem more inclined to buy one another's assets and invest in proven reserves than go hunting for new sources. Conoco Phillips recently bid $35.6 billion for Burlington Resources, one of the world's largest natural-gas producers. In the contiguous 48 states, easily accessible fields are running full tilt. "We've had great success finding new reserves, but these are unconventional sources...
...High-ranking federal police officials, as well as some presidential candidates, have charged privately that certain member countries of the UN Mission have been complicit in the kidnapping network, either by taking payments from cash-flush gangs to look the other way or supplying them with weapons. UN Mission spokesman David Wimhurst vehemently denies the accusations: "If the government is serious, it should come forward and offer proof. Otherwise, it's just another nasty rumor attacking MINUSTAH...
...allots space for a sizable conference area, a larger all-purpose room, a coffee bar, and a music practice room that should fit a four-piece band.But a mere ribbon-cutting ceremony will not guarantee that Hilles’ fourth floor will be used. The Quad Houses are already flush with gathering areas, and unlike heavily-trodden rooms such as the Currier Fishbowl, Hilles’ fourth floor is not likely to get casual foot traffic and therefore must become a destination in and of itself. It must be open 24 hours. We envision that it will be most successful...
...been working overtime to catch the scammers. Flush with funding to root out nonprofits connected to terrorism and given a new institutional mandate to do a tougher job, its Exempt Organizations Division has added 160 auditors over the past two years. Since August 2004, according to Mark Everson, commissioner of the IRS, the agency has contacted 1,240 organizations with questions about how they pay their executives. So far, 719 returns have come under audit for suspicious accounting. State regulators, who have traditionally policed nonprofits, are pushing for new laws. The House and Senate held hearings this summer on nonprofit...
...where it was five years ago. But it's moving up. The Dow Jones industrial average has gained 6.5% over the past six weeks, is in positive territory for the year and is within striking distance of its all-time high of 11,723. Fueling the rise: companies are flush with profits, buying back shares and raising dividends. "I don't factor it into decisions like shopping," says Scott Fuselier, 32, a sales manager in Atlanta, of his rising 401(k) balance. "It's so long-term." Yet that is measurable wealth for the half of the population that owns...