Word: floating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does," says Grossman, "he learns a whole lot. He also gains a certain confidence in the company because it backed him up. We have to be damn sure that we don't make anybody so scared that he will be afraid to float a suggestion or try something. Ideas are really all we have...
...Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes seem to float, and an austere double bed. A bed, he said, "isn't only a place for voluptuousness," but a place for comfort and majesty...
...knew there had been disagreements about a proposed U.S. resolution at the United Nations that would stress broadened support of the Palestinians. Vance and Brzezinski, in agreement for a change, had urged the President to take a tough approach. Strauss wanted to be more flexible; he wanted simply to float the idea to the leaders because he was afraid they would fight it. Strauss knew that Carter had come down on the side of the Vance-Brzezinski approach. But he was stunned when he got aboard the plane and was handed a sealed envelope that contained a rigid list...
...specialty of international monetary policy, Dornbusch opposes the efforts of the Federal Reserve and foreign central banks to prop the dollar's value by buying up billions on the international money exchanges. His preference: let the dollar float freely until it reaches its real market value. Dornbusch takes much the same hands-off attitude toward trade: the U.S. should not protect its industries from foreign competition, and, conversely, it should insist that its trading partners reciprocate. In a free global market, Americans would be forced to face up to the fact that either the nation controls its inflation...
...contrast, the accumulation on South Padre Island's spectacular beach was not much heavier last week than usual: bits of tar routinely float in from passing tankers. Bathers have got used to oil-stained feet. Thus few cancellations were reported at hotels. Padre Island, a thin barrier reef that stretches approximately 130 miles north from its highly developed southern tip, was slightly harder hit. But the oil was still no worse than a thick line of tar at the water's edge...