Word: floats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ultimate burden of globalization, though, lies with entrepreneurs like Yan who, succeed or fail, are stretching old ideas of economic possibility. "Today all my capital is from abroad. But five years from now, I guarantee you, I'll be able to float a company here in China." He adds, with characteristically world-class ambition, "I'll only have to say, I am Richard...
...around 4:45 p.m., the last blue and white float drives out of sight, and the loyal crowd disperses. The park remains incredibly busy, though, and a youth attracts a number of parade-goers by drumming on a plastic can. Eventually, he hands the sticks off to a buddy sitting on a bench just behind their makeshift stage. Four young men take turns playing the cans, until a cop on horseback approaches. The policeman makes a signal with his hand that looks like he's cutting his throat. The drummers are suddenly silent, focusing their attention...
...advances given to float best sellers have contributed to the publishing slump. "A $1 million advance is not a shocker anymore," says Peter Breen, managing editor of Book Publishing Report. Ironically, it was Newhouse who developed the high-price strategy, says Thomas Maier, author of Newhouse, on the theory that, as in Hollywood, the hits could carry the dogs. "He became a victim of this theory and opened the door for media conglomerates to enter the world of book publishing," Maier notes...
...spicy and raw in sidewalk cafes, insane drivers who aim directly for tourists. This is Europe--at least as seen from the perspective of much of America, not excluding our cloistered campus. Many Harvard students, who usually swim valiantly upstream against the flow of conventional ideas, allow themselves to float comfortably along on the current of public opinion when it comes to the Old World...
Electronica is Madonna's ideal realm. Her shallow pop seemed to float without foundation in her previous albums. Every time she tried to be "innovative" or "groundbreaking," it all turned into another exercise in pleasing the Top 40 crowd. The songs on Ray of Light are built around producer William Orbit's spectacular backgrounds: synthesizers illuminate the music with pseudo-stars, comets, flowing rivers, and gurgling heavenly blips. "Sky Fits Heaven," for instance, would be a dismally boring song without the lightly pulsating background that perfectly matches the song's lyrics...