Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Piccard estimated that what he calls Homo technicus releases between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 tons of polluting petroleum products every year to float on the seas' sensitive surface. Up to 1.8 million tons come from automobile exhaust emissions which rise into the atmosphere and eventually precipitate onto the ocean surface. Tankers spill another million. The world's polluted rivers spew out the rest...
...chapters are just as much at home in this collection of 62 stories as they would have been in their intended novel. In fact, it is not even necessary to separate Brautigan's prose into short stories or novels. All of his images, longings and humor eventually float free of their structural moorings and are kept aloft by the only thing in Brautigan that really counts-his special voice...
...Dirty Float. Connally invited the other nations to let impersonal market forces do what many governments have found politically impossible: revalue their currencies upward against the dollar to the full extent deemed necessary by the U.S. Major IMF members are moving toward agreement on new exchange rates. Yet because their goods might thus become permanently more expensive in the U.S. and other markets, few nations have allowed the full change to occur. Even after many world currencies were floated against the dollar in August, governments instructed central banks to buy the dollar with their own currencies if their value rose...
...those underclassmen who show definite pecuniary and athletic promise (can we change the CEEB?), why give them tickets? If these guys are serious and willing to give money, why not auction the tickets off? Float the value of the End Zone...
...agree on little else, least of all on their response to it. The sharpest policy split in Europe divides France and West Germany. The French insist on maintaining a fixed exchange rate against the dollar on commercial transactions, while the Germans contend that all nations, at least temporarily, should float their currencies against the dollar, as Bonn did last...