Word: float
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...This particular boarding school supported a number of arcane traditions, one of which was a mandatory drown-proofing seminar. My gym class and I entered a cold pool at six in the morning, fully clothed and wearing shoes, to float for 30 minutes. At first, the experience was kind of soothing. Then, the football coach sprayed us with a high-powered hose to mimic “conditions...
...other factor boosting gas prices is growing demand. AAA predicts a Memorial Day weekend as busy as ever. Some experts say you won't see drivers really get price sensitive until they are routinely paying $100 every time they fill up. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can float congestion-pricing schemes and tell taxi drivers they have to switch to hybrids by 2012, but to the general public, this is about time and love, not money and reason. We may fear global warming, replace our lightbulbs, recycle our plastics. But in America a man's car is still...
...loves her, duh! But all the while, the viewer—at least this viewer, anyway—can’t help but notice that he’s fondling her left breast with his pistol. This scene epitomizes the film—serious moral questions float at the periphery, but at the core, there’s little more than pornography. Verhoeven wants to stimulate his audience on both intellectual and sexual levels. Unfortunately, he succeeds in doing neither; the grotesquery of using sex to keep viewers engaged while he fashions facile moral dilemmas is all too apparent...
...subsequent release, Brock’s pained yelp has become a triumphant battle cry for the legions of kids willing to dance and drink their sorrows away. Modest Mouse has been swept into the mainstream, almost jumping the shark with 2004’s surprise hit “Float On,” which fueled a mini-van commercial and a Kidz Bop video. Comfortably signed to a major label, Brock is using his new and improved firepower to pack already unstable songs to the brim with a cacophony of boisterous horns, disco bass lines, and supercharged snare hits...
...vetting companies is hardly traditional. To float on the LSE's main market, a company normally needs a three-year business record, a minimum market cap and shareholder approval for big acquisitions or disposals; NASDAQ and NYSE have similar hurdles. But AIM's quality control is outsourced to 85 so-called Nominated Advisers, or Nomads. Generally accounting firms or financial management companies, Nomads scrutinize a firm's executive staff, business model and performance before deciding whether it can list. To a degree, NYSE's Thain is right: AIM has very few prescriptive requirements for listing - the Nomad's own judgment...