Word: floated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Labor Secretary, and then enunciated in Clinton's book Putting People First. There the candidate declared, "While our global competitors invest in their working people, seven of every 10 dollars American companies spend on employee training goes to those at the top of the corporate ladder. High-level executives float on golden parachutes to a cushy life while hardworking Americans are grounded without the skills they need." After that, Clinton promised an "urgent" and "simple" solution: "We will require every employer to spend 1.5% of payroll for continuing education and training to all workers, not just executives...
...animals produce a cub, which later turns into a human child--which still later changes from a puppet into a real live boy. Oversize masks hide most of the remaining actors, from the stern-faced schoolteacher with his crooked, elongated finger to a snarling, flamenco-dancing tiger tamer. Butterflies float across the stage, a miniature church breaks apart when leaves erupt from inside it, and a dancing skeleton in a bowler hat is a macabre emcee...
...back to all that. But first consider just how out-of-the-box this dividend score is. Since 1928, when record keeping started, the dividend yield of the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has tended to float between 3% and 6%. Until now, the lowest it ever got was 2.6% in both 1973 and 1987--just ahead of huge market declines...
...faster, there is one area in which Fidelity still operates in the turtle mode. That is in getting your money to you. It took four days for me to get a disbursement check. Fidelity sent it the slowest way possible so the company could make more money on the float. Over a year's time, we are talking about real money. Fidelity could get the money into the clients' hands faster, but that doesn't add to its bottom line. Amazing, isn't it, that the company does not seem to be working to speed up that process? THOMAS...
...keep the audience interested, even when the verbal dueling gets ridiculously complex. The script is also full of vicious one-liners. When the nubile and conniving Chloe is rejected by her would-be prey, another character remarks: "I wouldn't worry about Chloe. She's old enough to float on her back...