Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sailor Still Afloat (Reuters) ? The sailor the Navy wants to discharge because he listed himself as 'gay' in his AOL profile has won a delay of the dismissal after filing a lawsuit...
...higher than the payout on equivalent Japanese securities. Besides, any move out of U.S. bonds would drive down the value of U.S. currency, pushing up the yen. And a strong yen would make exports from Japan more expensive at a time when it must sell goods abroad to stay afloat. "Some people just refuse to understand that massive Asian selling of American securities makes no sense because it is not in Asia's interest," says Michelle Laughlin, a well-known Prudential Securities analyst...
...Didn't Die: Two colleges--Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute--kept the place afloat during lean times. Alumni moved back when the kids left the nest...
...Watson episode is at least partly factual. Matthiessen excels at writing nonfiction, but he seems uncomfortable inventing the astonishments--the outrageous lies--that keep novels afloat. Perhaps for this reason, he locked his readers away from E.J. Watson and the central drama. He presented his novel as a sheaf of tortuous, conflicting depositions by participants and onlookers that left the truth about the enigmatic Watson untold. Lost Man's River carries the puzzle forward, but in doing so withdraws an additional 50 years from the event. Lucius Watson, one of E.J.'s sons, by now an elderly, self-apologetic historian...
...Cuban-exile community--particularly the fervent anti-Castro organizations--behaves very much like the oppressor it so reviles. It's sad to live in a community where constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech, are selectively respected. And this is the exile community that helps keep Castro's regime afloat by sending $800 million a year in money and goods to relatives on the island. ALEX DIAZ-GRANADOS Miami...