Word: flushes
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...terrorists on the move, so the agencies conclude that something must be up, though they don't know what. Intelligence officials also admit that sophisticated organizations like bin Laden's often will have operatives intentionally create noise - like making cellphone calls they know spy satellites will intercept - just to flush out what the spy agencies have arrayed against them...
...range, just north of town is Alang-Alang, a small boutique resort offering handsome bungalows, a pool filled by a waterfall and, in the evening, a candlelit restaurant overlooking the sea; the rate is $100. For reservations, call (62-370) 693-518. Honeymooners or the really flush should head farther north. In vast grounds on its own headland opposite the Gili Islands is the Oberoi, Lombok's premier resort. The huge bungalows are well spaced and beautifully maintained. Some have private pools. Its showpiece is the main pool, sculpted with shallow ponds on either side like a rice terrace, disappearing...
...three events have inspired feature films: the 1999 Tim Robbins film "The Cradle Will Rock," the 1975 ABC TV movie "The Night That Panicked America" and the 1999 HBO docudrama "RKO 281." From his first flush as a prodigy to his long maturity, when he ballooned or diminished into the butt of fat jokes, Welles spurred countless anecdotes, gossip, myths, not all of his own making. His life and films have been the subject of more than 100 books. But none of them is primarily about Welles? radio career...
...Government belt-tightening, of course, is what the Republicans have been trying to sell voters for years, but when Clinton had the surpluses rolling in and everybody from K Street to Wall Street to Main Street was feeling flush, it looked like cold, cruel ideology next to Bill?s lofty empathies. Not to mention that Republicans, in their own way, have been prone to spend as much as Democrats when its been their turn at the trough. Now that Americans are doing a little belt-tightening of their own, they might finally be ready to demand that Washington join them...
CEOs get the big bucks when times are flush, but in today's sluggish economy and stock market, more and more of them are out of a job. During the first six months of this year, 555 chief executives left or lost their job, according to a survey by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the job-placement firm. That's a 22% increase over the departure rate during the first half of 2000. "There is so much scrutiny now that it is very hard to hide mistakes," says John Challenger, chief executive of CGC. When a company's stock drops for several...