Word: float
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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SCHUMANN: CARNAVAL; PAPILLONS; TOCCATA (Sony Classical). Cecile Licad goes to the fair, tackling Schumann's greatest piano work, Carnaval, and finding goodies on almost every page. The Toccata also surges and sparkles. Only the tricky Papillons disappoints; she should float like a butterfly, but she stings like...
...going to make sure they get their money's worth. We think that things like purses, gloves, shaker sweaters, turtlenecks and espresso machines are going to be very good. I don't think this is the year when we want to be in space-age TV sets that float on the ceiling...
...Everyone's favorite float was the full-sizedbroccoli tofu with spicy peanut sauce and thedining hall checkers dancing around," Hoey says...
Earthquakes frequently occur along the boundaries of continental plates, huge sections of the earth's crust that "float" on a mass of superheated rock. California's San Andreas Fault, for instance, marks the dividing line between the North American and Pacific plates, which are slowly slipping past each other. But the New Madrid fault lies in the middle of the North American plate, seemingly far from harm's way. Why do earthquakes occur in such an out- of-the-way spot? By analyzing seismic data, scientists have concluded that the New Madrid fault is a failed rift, or break...
...term banking crises, but over the long haul, more dramatic changes are needed. During the past 20 years, commercial banks have been muscled out of many of their traditional lines of business by other segments of the financial industry. Most important, few major corporations still borrow from banks; they float their own commercial IOUs. When banks looked for borrowers elsewhere, they ran into one bad risk after another, most notably the Third World countries. Says Katherine Hensel, a banking analyst for Shearson Lehman Hutton: "Just look at the legacy here. On the heels of the ((Third World)) debt problem, other...