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...near-graduate who aspires to a career in journalism says she has posted the masthead of every newspaper that has turned her away. Other students say they and their friends highlight the word "unfortunately" every time it appears in a rejection letter. A few compare what they call "flush rates," circling every consecutive "f," "l," "u," "s," and "h" in each such letter...
Marketing experts may wonder why Denver's Cherry Creek mall is so flush. Generating nearly $400 per sq. ft. in annual sales, it is one of the most profitable shopping centers in America. Could it be the free valet parking for the handicapped, or the swanky Neiman-Marcus store with its $100,000 furs? Guess again, folks! Local shoppers know: it's the mall's bathrooms...
...gulf had gained the upper hand. As long as the possibility existed of a protracted and ruinously expensive war, many Americans were frozen in an anxious stasis in which they were delaying major financial decisions. Says John Tuccillo, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors: "With the flush of victory, people are going out looking for houses." Some have more to celebrate than others. In San Jose home sales have jumped an astonishing 42% since heavy rains arrived two weeks ago. Already buoyed by the war's end, some Californians are apparently beginning to believe their destructive five-year...
...reconstruction because Bonn did not supply troops to the war effort and German companies illegally helped build chemical weapons for Iraq. But neither country intends to walk away from the region and leave a vast market to foreign firms. Kuwait will have to borrow to finance early projects, and flush Japanese lenders could be an important source of funds. While vowing not to attach strings to such money, Japan could well encourage Kuwait to spend it on the world-class services of Japanese contractors...
...relatively easy victory, the U.S. public has settled into a more realistic, in some cases too pessimistic, view of what is to come. The initial uncontested air raids and gee-whiz video glimpses of bombing turned out to be less decisive than they seemed in the first flush of euphoria, and the dream of immediate surrender has deteriorated into occasional fears that nothing will crack Saddam Hussein's will...