Word: hovers
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...gang with another set of characters. But at least we can say Harry is Rowling's last wizard. From here on out, it's Muggles only. "I think I can say categorically that I will not write another fantasy after Harry," she says, making herself and her publicists, who hover nearby, visibly nervous. "Wait, now I'm panicking. Oh, my God! Yes, I'm sure I can say that. I think I will have exhausted the possibilities of that. For me." Beyond that, she isn't giving away many clues, but she's approaching the project with her usual ruthless...
HBS’s yield figure has not been finalized, but Aisner says the school expects it will hover around 90 percent...
Haddad seems to hover above the fray, just trying to be a friendly guy at the helm of an organization with a lot of baggage. During a recent job interview, instead of impressing the interviewer with his published poems or his other accomplishments, Haddad instead tried to make friends...
...Russia’s post-Communist economic collapse has been greatly overstated because official Soviet statistics were quite inflated. Shleifer further argues that Russia’s woes closely resemble those of middle-income countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia, and Mexico, which all have per capita GDPs that hover around Russia’s of $8,000. Hardly exceptional, the economic problems that addle Russia—from capital flight to debt defaults—are standard fare for these middle income countries...
...provide the greater buoyancy needed in less dense fresh water. The Sea-Link looks more like an underwater helicopter than a submarine. It has a bubble-like cockpit that seats the pilot and a scientist, and its nine reversible thrusters allow it to move in any direction or hover in place. Cameras and lights are mounted on the outside, as are racks to hold buckets for samples grasped by the robotic arm or sucked up by a vacuum tube...