Word: buoying
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...hold her, a girl in Santee is attempting to find the words to buoy the spirits of a brokenhearted friend. In northeast America, we are beginning to dig out of a deep and snow-packed winter and to catch flashes of sunlight. This, I should tell her, is news of gratitude and hope--or the news about Jessica...
Like the Amish in Witness, these Socialists in Gallagher's extended family experience life more fully because they believe so deeply. Devoted readers of the Daily Worker, Stalinists to the end ("the pact with Hitler was a tactic, darling"), they sometimes look ridiculous but steadily buoy Gallagher with a bracing sense of connectedness. As a girl, she thought a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall was a picture of her grandfather. Her summers at "worker's camp," where the oppressed were celebrated, provide wonderful memories, although political purity was strictly enforced: an extra slice of watermelon to a black...
...wind was really pushing the boat left, and to make matters worse, the officials had us line up on the far left-hand side of the course," women's heavyweight captain Stephanie Malliaris said. "The buoys just went under the starboard instead of the port oars and once we missed the first buoy, there wasn't enough time to adjust before we missed the second...
...most frustarating thing about the penalty is that it didn't make us at all faster," Malliaris said. "If anything it slowed us down when one of our oars hit the buoy...
...accounts. This money could then be invested in stocks and bonds, as has been advocated by Bush advisor and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61. Feldstein has argued that private investments will create a "All-Gain, No-Pain" fix for Social Security, as the swirling stock markets buoy the program to higher and higher returns. Yet pleasant fantasies may not serve as the basis for future policy, and there are several persuasive reasons why such painless gains will not be realized--and should not be pursued--outside the theoretical realm...