Word: floats
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Here too, it turns out, the public is more realistic about the limits of power. Far from being a victim of his own success, the President seems to float high above the domestic problems, insulated even from disapproval of his own policies. The TIME/CNN survey found that only 39% of the public applaud Bush's handling of the economy, while 71% feel he spends too little time on domestic affairs. Yet his overall approval rating flutters around 72%. "People are perfectly capable of believing in a national ascendancy and not linking it to our inability to solve our social problems...
Somehow it is not much fun to wake up the television set. The medium is a microwave: it makes reality taste wrong. Television transforms the world into a bright dust of electrons, noisy and occasionally toxic. Turn on the set and lingering dreams float out to mingle with CNN. Dreams are not an electronic medium...
...Holy Names Academy she was gregarious and peppy; Sister Bernadine Casey remembers a "pleasant, lovely and active student" who had a "gift for writing." Kitty made the cheerleading squad and was elected "Friendliest Girl" for four years running. She was chosen the school's "Lilac Princess," and rode a float in the annual Lilac Festival parade...
...still, blue morning air 150 ft. above the town of Fort Lupton, Colo., two men float in a hot-air balloon. One lashes a strong rubber cord to the midsection of the other, Fred Kaemerer, 23, a Denver engineer, who grimaces like a condemned man. When the countdown rings out -- "Three! Two! One!" -- Kaemerer swan-dives headfirst over the edge of the gondola. Although it lasts only seconds, the 60 m.p.h. plunge seems to take forever. But the real kick is yet to come. Just as Kaemerer hurtles to within a few feet of the earth and a terrifying impact...
...result was that, instead of closing the bank, regulators in 1988 agreed to let CenTrust float $200 million in bonds to shore it up. B.C.C.I. contributed $25 million of that amount. Bank regulators thus postponed CenTrust's death by more than a year and raised the cost of the eventual bailout by hundreds of millions. In the grand jury investigation in Miami, Abedi's bank stands accused of parking the $25 million temporarily to dress up CenTrust's books for the regulators...