Private equity's overwhelming motivation and interest is in floating a business at a fair price.
You're stabbing into the wilderness for a five-day fly-fishing trip, floating a river for trophy brown trout.
Moreover, Gulf countries might feel more secure about liberalising and eventually floating a Gulf-wide currency, backed by several countries' reserves.
Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama's chief of staff, softened the president's previous insistence on such a plan by floating a compromise.
Can you tell us if the Europeans are already floating a candidate?
For example, in his first year, he tried to teach students about buoyancy by floating a Lego man on a boat down a stream.
The first try came when the Samoan fly-half exhibited his vision by floating a 30-yard pass into space for Connor O'Shea to latch onto.
Meanwhile the major US networks are floating a trial balloon that would see them pull out of over the air broadcasting and focus on cable deals.
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The experts I talked to say the chances of Tilton floating a new CLO in this market or raising a new private equity fund are slim.
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Representatives of the Obama campaign in Florida are floating a possible compromise that could seat delegates from the Sunshine State at the Democratic National Convention in August.
There is a sensible way to level the playing field between debt and equity, and it doesn't have to involve hair-splitting over the corporate treasurer's motives for floating a bond issue.
Passenger Cassie Terry described the ship as "a floating toilet, a floating Petri dish, a floating hell" in a lawsuit filed Friday against Carnival for unspecified damages related to the cruise.
At the other end Lampard squandered a glorious chance - floating a chip over the bar when he surely would have scored with a more direct strike - before Everton thought they had won it.
My sources at the Treasury tell me that they are happy with RBS's current proposals to mend itself, which involve shrinking its investment bank and floating a share of its US retail bank, Citizens, on the stock market.
Hadfield's earnest voice and unique perch in space brings a moving immediacy to Bowie's verses, and when he sings, "I'm floating in a most peculiar way" while actually floating, it's a powerful moment.
During the search, an officer spotted a shoe floating in a neighbor's pool, which was uncovered and contained blackish water, Fandrey said.
She put her arms around his narrow shoulders as if he were a log floating in a river which she could rest on to catch her breath.
Just as a floating foot and minute would lead to a lot of building and cooking errors, floating money would and does foster a great deal of malinvestment and trade disharmony for turning voluntary, economy-enhancing exchange with stable money as the measuring stick into something where trading partners are increasingly at odds.
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Workmen helped to rescue a ferret found floating on a pontoon off the end of Anglesey's Beaumaris Pier.
But what does it mean when you go from Bill and Dave in shirtsleeves sitting beside you on a bench in the company cafeteria to a ghostlike Carly floating on a television screen?
The company has ambitions for a golf course, a ski resort, a floating hotel and a host of other delights.
Closer to home, the bodies of four women were found a few weeks ago floating in a river in Toronto.
From the banks, our boat must have looked a bit like some floating cubist sculpture, its white angular structure scored by floor-to-ceiling windows striped with balcony railings, its monochromatic figure floating in a backdrop of clear blue sky.
Here they see Mexican conceptual artist Inaki Bonillas' wall of buzzing neon, situated a few steps away from a Jeff Koons work (three basketballs floating in a fish aquarium).
Dressed in a flannel nightgown, socks and a down jacket, her body was found floating about a mile from the yacht, according to police reports.
After some urged an investigation into a potential link to thousands of pig carcasses found floating in a river, agricultural officials said they tested pig carcass samples and did not find any bird viruses.
Then there was his private 454-foot mega yacht, the Rising Sun, a floating pleasure palace featuring a wine cellar, movie theater and basketball court.
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They could be staring at Bloomberg screens or reviewing portfolio company spreadsheets on a yacht floating just off a picturesque beach in the Seychelles or at their ski chalet in Corchaval.
Next year Mexico's economy will be much more strongly placed than it was in 1994, with less debt falling due, a smaller current-account deficit, and a floating currency instead of a fixed one.
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