Word: floated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film, little of this remains. Bits of themes, shreds of ideas float on the surface of the plot like so much plankton...
...spend proportionately more than the U.S. for imported petroleum. These factors will damage their payments balances and weaken their currencies. As foreign currencies decline, the dollar should become relatively stronger. Alan Murray, a vice president of New York's First National City Bank, predicts that the dollar will float up another 10% next year...
...closing time. Two women dressed in blue jeans float in and begin perusing the price list on the wall. Frank stands behind the counter waiting to take their order. "Good, onion pizza, please, sit down." The women, seated at the table, chat away, about Dick and Robert and Jordan Marsh. One is tall and black, with an expansive Afro hairdo. Her companion is white, with long black hair that sags onto her short leather jacket. They are oblivious to the group that has just walked in the door, to the conversation at the next table, to Frank's acrobatics behind...
...snowcapped mountains when the sun is setting, the beautiful pink and violet reflections from the combination of mat snow and shiny ice." The bouquet of shells, holding the main hall, two secondary theaters, art-exhibition space, a chamber-music room and a restaurant, would be anchored to float above a massive platform containing the several hundred utility rooms of the Opera House. Utzon's podium originated with a 1949 visit to Mexico, where he studied the ruins of Maya architecture: the monumental stairways and levels of buildings like the Temple at Uxmal in Yucatan were to be reflected...
...factors have taken the urgency out of the drive to create a new monetary system. First, the world has stumbled into a de facto system of "floating" exchange rates in which the dollar price of the German mark, French franc, Japanese yen and British pound is set by supply and demand-and it has proved stable enough. Second, as a result of two formal dollar devaluations, a further downward float, and ravenous worldwide demand for the farm products that the U.S. grows, America is no longer spilling out dollars abroad at an alarming rate...