Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dialogue will make the in-group twitch with recognition: "I've hung onto every bit of rubbish there is to hang onto in life-and I've thrown the good bits away"; "I don't want another martini, I've had enough to float Fire Island"; "Sleep, rest, relaxation-where can I buy those?" Her acting, against a backdrop of Old Flame Dirk Bogarde's flexing jaw muscles and travelogue shots of Olde England, may be the best of her career. The most revealing scenes are onstage at the Palladium. On opening night she stands...
Outside of Britain, Europe has no tradition of a free capital market. Its many family-held enterprises have long preferred to scrimp to finance expansion out of profits rather than to float stock issues that might bring in outsiders. Many of today's rigid controls are a heritage of the desperate need of postwar European governments to ration every asset. Now that more capital is available, most of it is soaked up by expensive government welfare programs. Little risk capital comes from wage earners, who are still wary of risking their savings on the Continental bourses...
Stoking the Boilers. The Guterma-Dardi group then attacked the problem of dumping 575,000 new shares of United Dye stock on the market without depressing the price. Instead of selling the new shares through the New York Stock Exchange, they engaged seven boiler rooms to float the stock on the over-the-counter market, got touters to push the stock with false claims. To keep the stock up and lure more gullible investors, United Dye engaged a shady bank in Tangier to buy the old shares listed on the Big Board, which were so thinly held that...
...millions of heavenly bodies capable of supporting life, Mariner's sensitive instruments testified that Venus does not rate a place on the long list. It appears to be hot and dry and dead. If there is any life at all-a doubtful possibility at best-it must float as dustlike microorganisms in comparatively cool clouds...
...remotely controlled locks for car trunks or motor hoods. They show promise of great value as relays for operating switches at a distance. And in the not too remote future they may help an orbiting astronaut make his way around his zero-gravity spaceship. Weightless, the space traveler would float aimlessly. With ceramic sandwiches in the soles' of his shoes and small batteries in his pocket, he could walk up metal walls or cross a ceiling using only a pair of pushbuttons to control his magnetic footing...