Word: flushes
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Students returning to Cambridge after the long months of summer have come to expect an array of pleasant novelties waiting for them—from renovated rooms and dining halls to the flush green lawns of the Yard in autumn. This month, though, students were greeted by a stark void in their culinary lives: the Chick-Fil-A franchise, last seen standing proudly in the Science Center’s Greenhouse, silently disappeared from Harvard’s campus some time after Commencement. It will be missed...
...lucrative supplying inexpensive goods and services to an unsatisfied market could be. In 1998, using €6 million in capital from his pharmacy business, he began constructing his Khalifa Group empire that within three years boasted €1.7 billion in annual sales and €200 million in profits. Flush with success and cash at home, Khalifa expanded his domestic airline business to Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and launched European car-rental units. He also indulged his social ambitions by organizing celebrity-studded receptions and junkets to Algeria, sponsoring pro sports teams and founding satellite TV channels based...
That house does have street-side windows. At street level there's one line of reflective-glass squares set flush with the wall surface. Another line at the second story is deeply recessed to emphasize the thickness of the walls. All the same, the first impression is of a place that's dark and impregnable. But as with the Elektra house, there's a surprise inside: the interiors are so filled with light that you could read a sundial in any of the rooms. To cross the threshold from the mildly forbidding exterior to the glowing entry hall is like...
...Neorest, left, a combination bidet-toilet that may very well be smarter than you are first thing in the morning. It knows when you're ready to use it (the lid lifts as you approach) and when you're done (the lid closes, and the toilet flushes). It even knows what has gone on in between: for liquid-only waste, Neorest uses 1.2 gal. of water to flush and for other episodes, 1.6 gal. The conservation-minded toilet also includes a heated seat, an air deodorizer and a warm-air dryer, among other features...
...million people aged 75 and over do not receive anything like the care of the Sainte-Agnès residents. Often, in fact, they are ignored or forgotten, left to fend for themselves or die alone. It's a national reckoning that is not coming easily. The immediate flush of media attention last week centered on the sexier political debate over the slow and initially dismissive reaction by the conservative government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, much of which was on holiday as the death toll mounted. Raffarin has refused to accept any blame, while President Jacques Chirac...