Word: floating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Restaurant Association's reckoning, deductible dining accounts for only about 5% of all purchased meals. The N.R.A. calculates that diners on expense accounts order soft drinks more than twice as often as cocktails, which means that Carter is hacking away at Coke and Dr Pepper, commodities that float the state of Georgia. In the big cities, where expense accounts matter, the bartenders, waitresses and dishwashers are up in arms. Their jobs are in jeopardy. The little guys stand to get hurt the worst...
...Chagall's art has the surreal. fantastic quality of a fairground where the sideshows never end. He depicts horses and riders cavorting inside sitting rooms and paints the moon suspended from the branches of a potted plant. His figures generally ignore the dictates of Isaac Newton. People glide, lean, float and spin like marionettes. Sometimes they are gigantic, towering ever a pink Eiffel Tower like the Harlequia-costumed "Magicien en Rose," at other times dwarfed by flower bouquets...
...Banking Committee, Burns contended that the U.S. has a responsibility "to protect the integrity of our currency"-an apparent call for intervention in money markets to keep the dollar's value stable. Burns raised what most economists agree is the most serious danger of permitting the dollar to float downward: a cheapened dollar boosts the price of imports and fuels domestic inflation. Some economists also fear that a weakening of the dollar-the currency used by many nations for oil purchases-will prompt oil-producing nations to seek even higher world prices...
...opening scene, the film never gives us any of the details behind the panorama. We watch the men float down the river without understanding any more than we knew before the film began. They are driven by greed and ambition, but we are given no hint of where that greed springs from. The characters barely interact; we see them only as figures moving in a dream. We never learn why Aguirre has brought his 15-year-old daughter on his fatal voyage, or why Dona Inez insisted on accompanying her husband. We never learn why the other...
...dawn, the mists of spring float over the rolling green lawns of the village of Hinsdale, 25 miles west of Chicago. Petals from thousands of flowering fruit trees swirl down wide, brick streets and settle in pink drifts around sprawling Victorian houses. The casually wealthy suburb of 15,906 seems safe from any kind of drastic change, especially an energy shock. Says Louis Duncan, Hinsdale's president: "We are individually concerned about energy, but our life-style hasn't changed...