Word: floats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...products, including imported raw materials and gasoline (at 13 cents per gal., perhaps the cheapest in the world). Exempted from the price hikes were 18 staples, including bread, rice and chicken. Perez also promised to raise fees for government-provided goods and services and to allow the bolivar to float downward on international currency markets, a move that would boost import prices...
...names of two well respected women academics--Mary Jo Bane and Alice M. Rivlin--also continue to float around the school as top contenders for the post. Some observers say increased pressure on the University to improve its affirmative action record makes the possibility of a woman dean more likely than in the past...
...chapter, for example, Baker laments the switch from paper drinking straws--which somehow anchored themselves to the bottom of soda cans--to plastic ones--which always seem to float out of the can. Is this progress, he asks...
...sitting on a pure, white beach, gazing out on the water as windsurfers leisurely float by. A nearby radio is playing Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds." As you take a sip of your drink, you notice a group of people walking along the beach in bathing suits. The women look like Sports Illustrated swimsuit models, the men like Chippendale dancers...
Other Freshman activities included a fruit and dairy bar at breakfast Monday morning, a root beer float bar last night and National Dairy Week posters posted around the Union, D'Andria said...