Berry likes the similar Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Fund, yielding 1.9% after expenses of 1.8%, for its "steady performance and proven management" and the no-load Fidelity Floating Rate High Income Fund, which is returning 2.9% after expenses of 0.9%.

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Likewise, HypoVereinsbank, Germany's second-largest bank after Deutsche, may consider floating shares in its Direkt Anlage Bank.

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Only a week after floating the idea of dramatically expanding tax-sheltered savings accounts, the administration has gone silent on the idea.

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After a round on the inflatable floating trampoline, jet-powered surfboards or James Bond-style underwater "sea bobs, " whoever's lucky enough to commandeer the master cabin can wash off in what Connor believes is the world's first yacht-board aromatherapy shower.

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Significantly, the vast expansion in markets for options, futures and derivatives occurred mostly after 1971, with the onset of floating exchange rates, wildly-gyrating interest rates, and swings in commodity prices.

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In 1999, one of the most well-known attempts at migration to the United States occurs when six-year-old Elian Gonzalez is brought to Miami after he is found floating off the coast of South Florida.

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An era of austerity, which the floating-rate system was designed to avoid, is going to occur after all.

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The Zenit-3SL rocket, which was being operated from a floating pad south of the Hawaiian islands, failed 40 seconds after the lift-off at 06:56 GMT.

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There have also been three different plans to build airports in the Thames estuary - a floating airport designed by architects Gensier, another plan known as Boris Island after it was backed by London mayor Boris Johnson, and proposals for a hub airport on the Isle of Grain designed by architect Norman Foster.

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