Word: bouyant
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...spend, automakers have been able to ignore the kinds of promotions that had been cutting into the bottom line. The result: healthy profits. On Tuesday, Chrsyler Corp., the nation's third largest car manufacturer, reported third quarter profits of $651 million, a 54% gain from '93. Analysts expect similarly bouyant results in the coming days when General Motors and Ford report their own third quarter performances. Such positive showings, of course, are a mixed blessing for consumers, particularly those in the market for new wheels. Surging car sales reflect a vigorous economy, but fewer discounts on the dealer...
...fact, Hughes speculates that since of Wilfred, the presence of healthy, bouyant hair has become a signifier of prowess: "The immense bigotis (mustaches) and patillas (muttonchop whiskers) sported by Barcelonese industrialists 1000 years later may, in their walruslike magnificence, have seemed to some of their owners to claim the virtues of Guifreel Pelos...
...personal issues, by showing that if "you dread getting out of bed... wish you were doing something else instead," your wish can come true when you stop accepting "things just the way they are... sell your coffee, sell your paper and appreciate more important things instead." The song is bouyant in its message that we choose the lives we lead, that our happiness is completely within our control. The decisions The Barley Boys have made with their own lives embody their faith in the tenet...
...comments by Campanis, who was fired a few days later, were disturbing in themselves (he went on to say the Blacks couldn't be good swimmers because they were not "bouyant"), but the misguided beliefs and attitudes they reflect are not rare in the world of sports...
...with a sad, small eye looking directly at him. The octopus looked like a corpulent ghost: but I suppose that a motionless, eight-handed beast isn't necessarily sad or pensive or dolorously malicious, and that for all I know-and I would much rather think so-he was bouyant with comatose hilarity, passing the time in genial mockery of this poor human being, hopelessly circumscribed with only a quarter of his arms. These thoughts prepared me for the seahorses. They were a fluttering gathering of sylphs, slowed by water, their backs fanning them along by fractions of an inch...