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...surpluses. The argument is more than a little questionable because these surpluses will not restrain the economy but will spur it by making possible state and local tax cuts and more spending on services. But there is no denying the basic fact: most state and municipal treasuries are indeed flush with more cash than they have had in many years...
Faithful followers of sporting soap opera will recall that, when last we saw the New York Yankees, they were flush with World Series victory but scarcely aglow with brotherly love. Catcher-Captain Thurman Munson, the man who hated Reggie Jackson's top-catting, wanted to be traded to Cleveland, a move that only an Akron, Ohio, native could cherish. Starting Pitcher Ed Figueroa, snubbed in the Series rotation, emptied his locker and departed before the champagne was uncorked. Amidst the celebration, Owner George Steinbrenner barely managed to conceal the pink slip he had prepared for Manager Billy Martin. Series...
...plane would seat seven abreast and, Boeing claims, effectively compete with McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 and Lockheed's TriStar L-1011. Meanwhile, Lockheed is coming up with a sleeker version of the L-1011, to be delivered to British Airways next year. McDonnell Douglas, already flush with orders for its DC-10s and DC-9s, is gearing up to produce a stretched DC-9 "Super 80"; the company claims it will be the quietest and most fuel-efficient plane ever flown...
Everything made me happy in Mil Abu el Kom, even cold water in the winter when we had to leave at dawn for the flush canal?a canal filled to overflowing for no more than two weeks, our "statutory" irrigation period, during which all land in the village had to be watered. We worked together on the land of one of us for a whole day then moved to another...
...while they were digging a tunnel under a highway. In vain did Armstrong argue that his men never complained about using the bathroom at a filling station 50 yards away. OSHA was even determined to give cowboys a new kind of home on the range, complete with a portable flush toilet within five minutes walking distance. Ranch hands who felt that nature provided ample resources for their needs hooted the proposal down. "Can you imagine a cowboy carrying his own restroom on the back of his horse?" scoffed Doug Huddleston, president of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association...