Word: float
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After eight months during which he seemed to float happily beyond the reach of his critics, George W. Bush found himself in danger of sinking last week. As clues and warnings about the Sept. 11 plot came to light and the need to assign blame grew stronger, fingers began pointing toward the White House. Bush was in an unaccustomed position--on the defensive against the Democrats, who seemed more energized than they had been in a year. But he responded with a counterattack that turned out to be a dazzling example of Bush Family Combat...
Clones' visual effects can be buoyant (Anakin makes a pear float, in a literal fruit loop) or imposing (the final vista of an orange sky). And they give a vertiginous kick to the fight scenes. A mile-high car chase has cool dips and speed bumps. An arena battle begins as a Gladiator knock-off and then escalates, with lumbering monsters that recall the peerless work of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. A light-saber duel in the dark has loads of drama and glamour...
...mice. They are beginning to examine environmental factors that might contribute to the development of autism and using advanced brain-imaging technology to probe the deep interior of autistic minds. In the process, scientists are gaining rich new insights into this baffling spectrum of disorders and are beginning to float intriguing new hypotheses about why people affected by it develop minds that are strangely different from our own and yet, in some important respects, hauntingly similar...
...silly to believe that if the Israelis float a final settlement, the Palestinians’ assumed desire for a just and comprehensive peace would be enough to end suicide bombings. The Palestinians launched the current terrorist intifada after being offered a state in 98 percent of the West Bank and Gaza and sovereignty over East Jerusalem. The inducement the Staff asks Israel to give was already spurned by the Palestinian leadership...
...shareholders and companies alike. Kingfisher even managed to recoup $1.4 billion from its Woolworths spin-off by selling the physical stores to a property manager, who in turn leased them back to the new, independent Woolworths. The third option is the carve-out. That's when a parent company floats a portion of a division in an initial public offering (IPO), retaining the lion's share for itself. That's what Switzerland's Nestlé has planned for Alcon, its U.S. eye-care unit. Nestlé expects to float nearly 25% of it in a $2.3 billion ipo this week...