Word: flushes
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...takes centuries," says Huckelberry, an engineer by training. Pima County, he is quick to point out, is not antigrowth--far from it. Every year for the past decade, the population has grown by 15,000 souls and covered 4,500 acres of desert in new housing. The newspapers are flush with property advertisements, the roads out of town dotted with signs for new developments with names like Coyote Creek and Saguaro Buttes. The median single-family-home price in 2004 was $176,500, up 14% from the year before. County planners estimate that the population, now at 943,795, will...
...Taliban is a busted flush. For nearly a year, Olson says, they have "failed to mount a coordinated offensive." In 2004, according to the U.S. military, villagers turned over more than 100 Taliban arms caches-compared with only 13 in 2003-leaving the rebels weaponless when they arrive from Pakistan. Most of their rocket attacks and attempted bombings are amateurish. "We've had Taliban trying to make [a bomb], and it's gone off in their hands, so they come to our hospitals for treatment," says Major David Flynn, a Bostonian from the 25th Infantry Division, whose men have...
...could be similarly exonerated. And even though Taser's stock has plummeted, it is still above where it was in early 2004. "The company has performed extremely well, but its rate of growth has slowed," says Joe Blankenship, an analyst at Source Capital Group, who notes that Taser is flush with cash. As it fights its many battles, Taser may need that war chest. --With reporting by Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago and Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles
...sneak attack in 1941, a wall falling in 1989--each came with a bang that was impossible to mistake once it happened, even if no one saw it coming. Across the Middle East last week, a tide of good news suggested that another corner might be near. Amid the flush of springlike exuberance, though, it was hard to know which events history would immortalize. Was it President Hosni Mubarak's startling announcement that Egypt would hold its first-ever secret ballot, multiparty presidential elections? Was it the popular demonstrations in Beirut two days later that finally forced the resignation...
...French fungi from the Chinese ones without a taste test. Although French regulations call for a truffle's origins to be clearly marked, truffle experts say many vendors either ignore the rules or engage in outright mislabeling. France's fraud-control directorate now carries out random DNA testing to flush out bogus-truffle dealers. Anyone caught intending to deceive the consumer with a Chinese truffle may be fined $1,300. Still, there are few inspectors and many truffles. "If the consumer is properly informed that they are eating a Chinese truffle, there is no problem," says Michel Courvoisier, director...