Word: float
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Although China now allows coal prices to float freely on the market, the government still sets the price electricity companies must pay for coal. This spring, that figure hovered at just two-thirds of the free-market price. This is meant to make electricity cheaper for consumers, but with so many industries gobbling up coal, many coal companies are loath to supply power plants. As a result, coal reserves held by China's electricity sector were down 40% last month compared with the same period the previous year. One major power plant in the eastern province of Jiangsu admitted that...
...Float On" MODEST MOUSE...
...well inheritors to the mantle of ne'er-do-well college rockers Pavement, this Washington State trio has produced its first truly lovely song. Lead singer Isaac Brock crows about various misadventures that inevitably melt away ("Even if things get a bit too heavy/We'll all float on") while the rest of the band makes bouncy, happy noises in the background. It's how Nick Drake's Pink Moon might have turned out if ol' Nick had been just a little happier. Perfect for a backyard sing-along as summer's last party winds down...
...certainly not a bunch of farmers throwing something together." Chachi says the Marines "are under observation pretty much most of the time." At 9 p.m., while some of the men gather outside to smoke and chat, wearing their body armor in the humid night air, three illumination flares float above, followed by three loud detonations. "Is that us or them?" a Marine asks. It's them. "M____________ are illuminating now," someone else says. The enemy is getting professional...
...University continues to float the possibility of outdoor wireless access in the Yard itself, but the area’s horticulture has impeded progress...