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...closer to war or to peace? As the fall and rise of world oil prices demonstrated, it was swinging wildly from one side to the other. Rumors of a dream -- the release of some hostages -- talk of possible deals, growing alarm at the costs of war, all sparked a flush of optimism that diplomacy could save...
...Harvard football team gets its final chance to flush out any remaining kinks today before finishing its season with five straight Ivy games...
...Oxford English Dictionary gives a quote from P. G. Woodhouse: "The flush on the little man's face darkened. `Are you trying to get gay with me?' he demanded dangerously." In 19th century England the term "gay" was applied--"with grim inappositeness," as one source puts it, to female prostitutes. Robert G. Davis...
...both BMW and Daimler-Benz, the maker of Mercedes, are flush with profits, thanks in part to the booming German economy. BMW aims to produce a record 520,000 cars this year, up 1.6% from 1989. Both companies proclaim their readiness to take on the Japanese luxury cars, but their fear is showing. "The Lexus is not a Mercedes, but as a portent of what they are able to do, it is more worrying," says John Evans, a British spokesman for Mercedes. "You ignore the Japanese at your peril...
...subsidies encourage the wealthy and middle classes to waste municipal supplies, while the poor are forced to buy from piperos, entrepreneurs who fix prices according to demand. Belatedly, the government has begun to establish a more sensible system of tariffs as well as promote water-saving devices like low-flush toilets...