Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more radical way to raise capital would be to organize an internal money market-a sort of Communist Wall Street-yet Yugoslavia is moving in that direction also. Two firms, the Zastava auto concern and the Belgrade-Bar railroad, have been allowed to float issues of interest-bearing and resalable bonds. More such issues are likely to be permitted, and government leaders recognize that they eventually will have to set up a market in which the bonds can be regularly traded...
...Euro" as moneymen call it -is still far away. Treasury Secretary John Connally, for one, is not overeager to see that day arrive. With a single currency, he fears, Europe may congeal into a unified economic bloc competing against the U.S., and the Europeans may let their currency float downward against the dollar whenever they want an added trade advantage against the U.S. At present, national rivalries prevent such truly coordinated action...
...radio, shut out the world with your windows and zip on down the freeway lulled by Carmen McRae, by the air whistling to get out the window crack, by the distant hum of the tires, zip past the palms and the houses at a standstill in the sun and float on the air on your shocks, free, rootless, just going-like the girl in Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays. You become a skier out here, your times off the freeway being mere chili stops at the bottom, breathless, charged, waiting for another move...
...celluloid and by the night. At night and on film, the huge painted sky shadowing Twentieth's "Western Town" (a sky which, by day, seems absurdly naive in its patent fakery) loses its hard edges and seems to soar up into the "real" sky. Its splashes of white cloud float free, lit by a moon whose own reality you cannot feel sure...
...cult heroine than Gloria Steinem, imbues the whole thing with a bit of chic. Men as well as women have been paying $1.50 for the privilege of glancing through the shiny red spring preview issue emblazoned with an eight-armed blue woman. And discussions of it have begun to float around the dining halls...