Word: drift
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...story of volume two: "Within a Budding Grove." Set at a French seaside resort at the turn of century, the narrator is a young man of delicate temperament. Vacationing among the idle rich, our hero spies a group of young women around the resort and has his fancy drift from one to the other. Who will the young man choose and will she reciprocate? This, the strongest "plot" of the series so far, provides the narrative thread that Proust then strings his poetic pearls along. In a medium where plot traditionally comes first, it's hard to believe that...
...Middle East pushed mortgage rates lower," said Frank Nothaft, chief economist at mortgage-finance company Freddie Mac (which, unsurprisingly, posted a 25 percent increase in net income in Q4). "That and falling stock prices raised investor appeal for U.S. Treasury Bonds, which in turn, allowed most interest rates to drift even lower...
...GEORGE H.W. BUSH Does this sound familiar? A President named Bush who scored high in foreign policy by confronting Saddam Hussein and mobilizing an international alliance but who seemed to pursue "deliberate drift" on the economy and other domestic issues. TIME chose Bush senior because he was the person who had the greatest impact on events both "for better and for worse...
...news never ends. Snippets of hope are dashed almost as quickly as they appear, only to be succeeded by fresh rumors of a peaceful exit. In a sense, it is all familiar. End games fascinate. In school, where we studied them attentively, the chapters were invariably titled "The Drift Toward War." The conclusions, too, were nearly uniform: If only there had been more time; if only the antagonists had understood one another better; if only the crisis had been nipped in the bud before it escalated. However historians eventually judge the rush of events in the Persian Gulf, few will...
...brightly lit classroom is part birthday party, part serious academic endeavor. Daniel has brought in pizza and other snacks to sweeten the deal, and the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong drift up from the stereo. Groups of chattering students are sprinkled around the room. Some sit at the round tables covered with paper, markers and other debris. Others are splayed on the floor with their materials spread around them, and a few are cozied up on the overstuffed couches that line two of the walls. Daniel bounds around the room in response to different students’ calls...