Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...substitute for tranquilizers in hyperactive youngsters. At the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kans., Psychologist Elmer Green is training subjects not to raise but to lower their alpha while increasing theta. In a low-alpha, high-theta state, Green explains, deeply buried unconscious problems sometimes seem to float into awareness...
FOLLIES (120). A work of art, rich, various, strange, hauntingly compelling. To float through time in the fragile, foolish bark of the self, and see life through the bifocal lenses of 20 and 50 simultaneously-that is the amazing achievement of this Proustian musical...
Writing in the planetary-science journal Icarus, Scientists William Streett, Harry Ringermacher and George Veronis contend that the Red Spot is caused by a huge solid chunk of hydrogen afloat in a sea of gases in Jupiter's atmosphere. How could a solid float in gases? The authors explain that the phenomenon becomes possible when certain mixtures of gases are subjected to high enough pressures. As one of the gases in the mix becomes liquefied and then begins to solidify under increasing pressure, a peculiar reversal takes place: the solidifying mass-like water turning into ice-becomes lighter...
...mildest proposal put forward by advocates of flexibility is to scrap the International Monetary Fund requirement that nations must prevent the price of their currencies from varying more than 1% above or below their official dollar values. Germany and The Netherlands are already letting the mark and guilder float-that is, find their own values based on supply and demand. Robert Roosa, former U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, proposes that IMF members let their currencies fluctuate perhaps 2½% above or below official value. Thus, small changes in the values of currencies could be made by the free market, and nations...
...Corona goes to trial, it would surely be the goriest-and hence the most sensational-in the nation's annals of mass murder. Whatever happens, one thing is certain: there will be no float-parade trophy this year to fill the other front window of the neat house on Richland Road. The window is occupied anyway-by a brass balance scale, the ancient symbol of justice...