Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bowyer said that the cost of the second-stage project might be lowered by combining an underground garage with the related structure complex, thereby eliminating the need for piles altogether. Such a complex would "float" in the marshy subsoil, but would be limited in height to six or eight stories...
...John Lee shoots his footage, Author Shrake captures superbly the feeling of combustible chaos that climaxed in the Kennedy assassination. Senile billionaires, rabid right-wing executives of shadow corporations, cheap crooks, displaced cowboys, and kids who stay well stoned and let it all float right on by, even Jack Ruby-Shrake molds them all into his amphetamine apocalypse...
...much like the water -it got in his eyes and ears -and at one point he called out to his mother, "Ich liebe dich, but can I come raus?" The result of a week's garden parties: Cipì not only has new friends but he can also float...
...officials were stunned by the crisis, and unable to suggest any method of coping with it. The Common Market countries faced two alternatives, neither pleasant for the U.S. The first would be a unified float of all the major European currencies against the dollar, a course favored by officials of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. While floating against the dollar, the European currencies' exchange rates against each other would be held steady. That might indeed calm speculation. But it would be a step toward dividing the world into potentially hostile monetary blocs-specifically the U.S. v. Europe-that American...
European bankers predict that the pound will float down to somewhere between $2.40 and $2.50, after which the British government will make official that de facto devaluation. Whether that will stabilize the world financial system a while longer remains to be seen. The most discouraging thing about the panic last week was that safety devices built up in the past six months collapsed promptly when put to the test...