Word: buoying
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...Senior coxswain] Jesse [Oberst] called the turns as tight as you could possibly expect,” senior three-seat Tyler Winklevoss said. “We were right on the buoy line steering as short a course as possible. The national team boat that did win—compared to them we steered a better course...
GARY BURTLESS: The short-term stimulus has undoubtedly helped reduce the severity of the recession, and it has helped buoy consumer spending. I would have to agree with Ed, though, that after three or four years, we're going to see a slowdown in the rate of growth...
Mountstuart is too much of a hedonist to grieve for long, however. Soon his high spirits buoy him back to the surface, and he's off again: to New York City as an art dealer, to Africa as a professor of English, and beyond. Throughout, Boyd expertly keeps up the irregular tap-tap rhythms of diary writing--often the gaps in Mountstuart's chronicle, when he is too depressed or having too much fun to write, are as eloquent as the words themselves--and Boyd has a biographer's eye for arranging the multitudinous ironies and serendipitous connections that...
Nationally, 20% of schools sell branded foods, and nearly all senior high schools operate vending machines. Beyond simply subsidizing the government meals, those dollars buoy cash-strapped schools in other ways, funding field trips and buying sports equipment. They also lure kids away from healthier options. In one study by the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, students in schools with snack foods consumed 50% less fruit, juice and vegetables...
...government, which, along with the Yokosuka government, formally complained to the U.S. Navy twice in August. Extra-curricular shore leave activities weren't the only reason for Hejl's dismissal. The 41-year-old Kitty Hawk recently failed an engineering assessment and earlier this year in Singapore struck a buoy while Hejl was at the helm. The dismissal of a carrier captain is rare, but with U.S. forces fighting the war on terrorism, the margin of error for those in charge has shrunk...