Word: float
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...stuffed all the clues into their desk drawers. As for the CEOs, they raid company coffers to pay off margin calls or build new mansions; awash in options, they manage the stock price instead of the company; as their business falls into bankruptcy and the layoffs pile up, they float away on golden parachutes--or yachts bought with company loans. "I've fully understood that they don't always necessarily have my interests at heart," says Dan Brown, a Seattle software-company owner, "but to be out there to rob me, that bothers me." Even criminals look for honor among...
...stuffed all the clues into their desk drawers. As for the CEOs, they raid company coffers to pay off margin calls or build new mansions; awash in options, they manage the stock price instead of the company; as their business falls into bankruptcy and the layoffs pile up, they float away on golden parachutes-or yachts bought with company loans. "I've fully understood that they don't always necessarily have my interests at heart," says Dan Brown, a Seattle software-company owner, "but to be out there to rob me, that bothers me." Even criminals look for honor among...
While it has been Bush's preference to float above other fights on Capitol Hill, leaving him in a position to take credit for whatever emerges, both Democrats and Republicans say this is one fight that promises to be so big and complicated that he will have to engage. His surprise announcement created a surge of momentum behind his proposal, but it could quickly disintegrate. "Only the President has the power to 'crack heads,'" the centrist Democratic Leadership Council noted in its daily bulletin. "If he doesn't do so, then reorganization won't accomplish much, especially in the crucial...
...don’t think there’s any litmus test or that he would float some balloons and try to see if people are all on the same page,” he says...
...Reichert couldn't find him. For the deeply religious detective, it was like a long journey through hell. Says Reichert: "I would come home after finding a 15-year-old girl, melting flesh off her face, body falling apart, the stench of rotting flesh--these are the memories that float...