Word: flushes
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At Balder Electric, which is based in Fort Smith, Ark., but sells its industrial motors around the world, these are flush times. After several sluggish years, profit margins are expanding again, revenue is soaring, and earnings will rise 30% this year. Its sales in 70 countries are booming--from Canada to Germany to China. "Our international business is up almost double our domestic business," says CEO John McFarland...
...position will be undercut. "Putin will strike back," he says. "But except for encouraging eastern separatism, he does not have a lever to work." For now, Putin must wait like everyone else for the outcome of the election. The future will depend on how quickly and thoroughly Yushchenko can flush the toxins out of his system - and whether Ukraine's body politic can do the same...
...recognize genuine chemistry when we experience it with another person. The few seconds of eye-contact and the flush of emotions, lips that struggle to pronounce words which become lost to passing moments—moments during which you are so locked into the other person that everything seems to go still and time briefly stops. For a few seconds it’s like you breathe in someone else, and from the way he or she looks at you, you recognize that the other person feels just as emotionally exposed...
...pulverizing few minutes in Closer, the funny, hurtful, splendidly acted new film that Mike Nichols has made from Patrick Marber's play and screenplay. The scene leaves the audience as flush and drained as the participants. "I thought we were way past being able to shock anybody," says Nichols, 73, who has directed his fair share of cinematic sexual frissons. "But people are shocked. It's not necessarily because of the language but because things that usually go unexplored are explored in public. Some people are armed against it. They say, 'I just don't know those people.' Well, they...
...This pulverizing few minutes leaves the "Closer" audience as flush and drained as the participants. "I thought we were way past being able to shock anybody," Nichols, 73, said to TIME's Josh Tyrangiel. "But people are shocked. It's not necessarily because of the language, but because things that usually go unexplored are explored in public. Some people are armed against it; they say, 'I just don't know those people.' Well, they...