Word: float
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...Senator Charles Schumer visited Beijing last week with two other Washington lawmakers to push China to freely float its currency. He argues that it's undervalued and is driving up the $200 billion U.S. trade deficit with China. Schumer spoke with TIME's Austin Ramzy about why he's behind legislation that would slap a 27.5% tariff on Chinese imports to the U.S., and why he's encouraged by his meetings with mainland policymakers...
...products cheaper in China. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, at a press conference last week, suggested the two Washington politicians could save U.S. taxpayers the airfare. There was not going to be any major, one-off revaluation this year. China, said Wen, would allow the yuan to float within a relatively tight band, as it has done since a 2% upward adjustment last year. Too bad, Graham responded before he left Washington. He has, he insisted, a "veto-proof" majority in support of the bill in the Senate...
...willingness to abandon notes and to play space. He rescues Roberta Flack's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Bread's truly horrible AM-radio hit If from years of accumulated treacle by tinkling out the barest hint of melody, confidently letting each note float around until it resolves itself in your head. He's equally adept at spelling his minimalism with funk on the original Ellen's Song, and closes with a solo version of Lord, I Give Myself to You, in which he harmonizes with himself in glorious fashion...
...hobbits--leprechaunish, with round bellies and bottoms, like the Munchkins in MGM's Oz--are persuasively played by jockey-size actors. The Shire and its environs are suggested less by sets than by delicately sylvan projections. Rivendell's High Elves are just that: they rise and float serenely (on wires) above the hobbits. The Winnebago-size Shelob tries to wrap her spidery tentacles around a struggling Frodo with the help of six black-clad puppeteers...
...meter race course on the Charles, bisected by the Mass. Ave. Bridge, is home to some of the most fanatical fans on the Harvard campus. Crowds show up by 7:30 a.m. on race day, and particularly intense spectators ride alongside the races on their bicycles. Crimson signs float from the Mass. Ave. Bridge. Throngs sit poised at the finish line to begin screaming as soon as boats come into view...