Word: flushing
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...course, Tony is not so flush that he can't walk into an eyeglass store owned by a civilian connected to his business, impose on him for a huge favor, then pick out a pair of Armani shades and say, "You know what? I left my wallet in the car." For Tony, the money is not the point. The point is not having...
...algorithmic model refined by NetJets and other fractionals businesses (if I have X customers, how many jets, boats, rooms, etc. will I need to meet demand at any given time period Y?), developers have zeroed in on a core market: older, well-heeled baby boomers, high-level executives and flush empty-nesters who want to play among themselves or with their families...
...benefit. He was once hired at $500 per day to fix a blood-analysis machine in a testing laboratory, and immediately realized that the tank for deionizing the machine’s water supply was contaminated with bacteria. It took him only two days to clean the tank and flush clean water through the system.“They were paying me $500 a day, and I finished in two days!” he reflects. “What a moron!”—Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...COMPANIES DRILL MORE WELLS? Oil and gas companies are flush with profits, so they could afford it. Exxon Mobil alone earned nearly $10 billion in the third quarter, a record for any U.S. firm. But companies seem more inclined to buy one another's assets and invest in proven reserves than go hunting for new sources. Conoco Phillips recently bid $35.6 billion for Burlington Resources, one of the world's largest natural-gas producers. In the contiguous 48 states, easily accessible fields are running full tilt. "We've had great success finding new reserves, but these are unconventional sources...
...High-ranking federal police officials, as well as some presidential candidates, have charged privately that certain member countries of the UN Mission have been complicit in the kidnapping network, either by taking payments from cash-flush gangs to look the other way or supplying them with weapons. UN Mission spokesman David Wimhurst vehemently denies the accusations: "If the government is serious, it should come forward and offer proof. Otherwise, it's just another nasty rumor attacking MINUSTAH...