1.   After several flush years, city revenues are tapering off as the national economy flounders.

2.   After one flush year, Gourdine recalled, he began the next season riding to the river in a Cadillac.

3.   Colleges are also scaling back on construction and hiring, after a span of flush years when the institutions added buildings, increased faculty sizes and created academic programs.

4.   In a year flush with first-rate storytelling, these are some of the standouts.

5.   Still, staying put has required them to spend down much of the savings and investments they had accumulated during the flush years.

6.   The flush years for state colleges are suddenly over.

7.   This has been the first flush year in a decade-long career for Ms. Maffia, a New York theater gypsy.

8.   Big cost hikes were not necessary in recent flush years, enriching schools that invested smartly and raised big donations.