Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Years and David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest sound the knell for the '60s and its leaders. The returnee has missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only dirt-plus almost every float in Norman Mailer's Mr. America Pageant. Lose a few, win a few. He has also missed Love Story, Myra Breckenridge, The Sensuous Woman. He browses through the current paperbacks; words rise up and greet him like so much Urdu: ecology, software, encounter groups, moon rocks, body language, future...
...Japanese governments were struggling hard to keep the prices of their currencies from rising, because that would hurt exporters, who supply many jobs. But the Bundesbank cannot keep buying dollars at the present pace very long. If the speculative storm does not subside soon, the Germans may have to float or revalue their mark upward for the third time in 40 months...
...addition, Shultz said, Japan has decided to float its yen, thus tearing it away from its fixed exchange rate with the dollar...
...said it is likely that countries with floating currencies, such as Canada and Great Britain, will continue with the float...
...Tethered mines will be cut from their cables by a severing wire pulled along by a low-flying helicopter. The freed mines will then float to the surface, where they can be harmlessly detonated by gunfire...