Word: floated
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...photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark Twain, got a patent for a stickum-coated scrapbook that sold thousands. A grand and intelligent book...
Predictably, the announcement touched off a national wave of panic buying and hoarding. As soon as it became apparent that prices on 90% of the nation's output would be allowed to float, such products as fish, milk and woolens either became more costly or vanished in some parts of China. Eggs, which had been in plentiful supply, disappeared from state-run stores; they remained available, but expensive, on the free market...
Rising fees are only one item on the consumer grievance list. Another complaint is banking's continued use of the float on checks. While this is an old banking practice, it seems particularly irritating at a time when modern communications make it possible for banks to transfer funds around the world in a matter of seconds. Money deposited as checks can often be used by the customers only after holding periods that may range from two days to three weeks. During that hiatus, the bank has, in effect, impounded the money since it receives credit for the check...
...which Greene made between 1976 and 1980 Though the General was Greene's host, the writer spent most of his time visiting the far corners of the country accompanied only by the fascinating Chuchu, a Marxist math professor who was Torrijos' bodyguard But Greene's travel writing falters Characters float in and out without explanation and personal relationships are never resolved. Greene's major preoccupation while in Panama, if we may judge from the repeated mention it receives, is the search for a good rum punch But the numerous bad ones seem to have logged his memory Certainly they limited...
...bottom line is that this is an incumbent President who never lost his grip," says one Mondale aide. White House strategists say that the President was shaken only once, when he stumbled in the first debate. Otherwise Reagan has been able to float along, sounding broad themes, flexing the power of his office, and reinforcing his image as a strong leader. Rather than outline what he would try to do in the next four years, he contrasts his first-term record against the "Carter-Mondale" Administration. He asks voters, "Are you better off than you were four years...