Reporters covering a specific industry watch executives float between companies like bishops on a chessboard.

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Such an inflexible apportionment of jobs, rather like an old-fashioned assembly line, flouts modern management techniques where team members typically float between roles.

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Letting the yuan float up would help reduce the trade imbalance between the U.S. and China countries as well as help with the disparate rates of domestic saving.

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But new money is strengthening the links between private banking and investment banking (float a mid-sized firm on the stockmarket, then manage the proceeds for the grateful owner).

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Should Mr Branson float more companies, investors will be especially aware of the difference between a brand and an investment.

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In the death zone between the rock shoals and the breakers, two grey seals float and turn, fishing, peering, wallowing like fat ladies in a spa pool.

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Note that you can make a subview of the scroll view appear to float (not scroll) over the other scrolling content by creating constraints between the view and a view outside the scroll view's subtree, such as the scroll view's superview.

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The bladder held the kite in a wing shape and allowed it to float on the water--this comes in especially handy if you crash during a solo passage between Maui and Oahu and need to relaunch at sea.

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