Word: floated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reich float the $15 billion figure, but it didn't make a splash. Upped it to $30b, and now they pay attention. Good. The key is that growth be remembered as Clinton growth...
Aides to Clinton emphasize that he has not reached a decision on any of these new levies. As press secretary Dee Dee Myers observed of Clinton in a PBS documentary broadcast last week, "He likes to float things out there to see what the reaction is." These trial balloons are sure to draw heavy fire, but some are sure to survive, according to several sources familiar with the deliberations...
...apart, of each patch of sky. After developing the film in the observatory darkroom, he turns the negatives over to Carolyn, who scans each set of two under her stereo microscope. If anything has moved against the background of fixed stars during the 40-min. interval, it appears to float in the eyepiece. If so, it is an asteroid or comet and might someday present a threat...
...told us about a saxophone player in Kansas City named Charlie Parker or a bass player in Minneapolis named Oscar Pettiford." Dizzy brought them all together to play at a fabled Harlem joint called Minton's, where, after the regular sessions, strange scrambled rhythms and impossible harmonies would float toward the dawn. It was, indeed...
...said the policy used last year receivedmixed reviews, although allowing transfers to bedetermined intra-house lotteries was generallyapproved. Previously, would-be transfer studentscould only apply to fill any leftover spaces inthe summer, and had to float into the house ifaccepted...