Word: float
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they've done. The producers knew that. They knew, then, that they were looking at a month of suspenseless votes, as the Pagong lined up for the slaughter like veals. This, in its way, could be as dangerous as having people knowing the winner. So why not float a rumor that some of the Pagong made it to the Final Four? We smug viewers who bought it would tune in anyway, to see how the Tagi alliance fell apart - which it hasn't, except for the defection of Kelly...
...that's as high as the protesters float, the Republicans have to be pleased with how this thing is going. But the nail-biting isn't over - the convention narrative begins to taper again on Cheney night Wednesday, coming to a point on Thursday. With McCain gone, the excitement vacuum will be nearly complete, and you know how nature feels about those...
Freedom is getting harder to find. So is waterfront property. Sensing a gap in the market, entrepreneurs are now selling the concept of nations-at-sea. In Honduras, an American engineer is about to start building a huge steel float called Freedom Ship, intended as a home for 50,000 people who will make their own laws and form a country unto themselves. In Britain's North Sea, an old gunnery fort called the Principality of Sealand is attracting investors who hope to make it a digital utopia, storing people's electronic secrets free from any government interference...
WHAT WON'T FLOAT Brothels...
...WHAT WON'T FLOAT] Kiddie porn, drug money