• Similarly, a pale room needs some anchoring items to stop it from floating off on a cloud of pastel marshmallows.

    WSJ: Why Dark Rooms Are a Bright Design Idea | Living Well by Rita Konig

  • It seems outrageous that anyone could write about the stark, volcanic rocks floating off the coast of South America without mentioning their most famous visitor after Charles Darwin.

    ECONOMIST: Island life

  • 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.

    NPR: 10 Presidents, One Dictator: U.S.-Cuba Policy

  • The Bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has concluded that they collectively need to raise more than the sums they have individually negotiated with the soon-to-be-closed Financial Services Authority (they have recently been agreeing measures with Andrew Bailey of the FSA to strengthen themselves - which is why, for example, Royal Bank of Scotland is shrinking its investment bank and floating off its US bank, Citizens).

    BBC: UK banks 'still short of capital', says BoE

  • These are all ideas floating around off the side of the desks of bond holders and Euro-thinkers.

    BBC: Italy: 'Hang on lads, I've got a great idea��'

  • They point to newly built sewage treatment plants, and sanitation workers who skim thousands of tons of floating rubbish off the reservoir each year.

    NPR: Concerns Rise with Water of Three Gorges Dam

  • 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.

    FORBES: Looking Inside Private Equity and Hedge Funds

  • First, he believes countries are better off floating their currencies than fixing them permanently through currency boards.

    ECONOMIST: Rise.Fall.Rise?

  • In late December, the citizens of Nago, a town in Okinawa's impoverished rural north, voted by 54% to 46% not to let the American Marine Corps moor a floating helicopter base off the beach, near its existing Camp Schwab.

    ECONOMIST: Left on the beach

  • Workmen helped to rescue a ferret found floating on a pontoon off the end of Anglesey's Beaumaris Pier.

    BBC: Floating ferret rescued off Anglesey's Beaumaris Pier

  • The rest of the world would gravitate toward this, taking more local currencies off the floating market and pegging them to the world's fiscal superpowers.

    FORBES: One World, One Dollar

  • Wood's body was found floating in a Catalina Island cove off the coast of California.

    BBC: Natalie Wood may have had bruises before drowning - coroner

  • Mr Brown will not find it much easier to wean Britain's borrowers off their fixation on floating-rate loans.

    ECONOMIST: No he can't

  • Steven loved the feeling of floating toward the rafters, then squeezing off flips and twists.

    WSJ: Two Brothers, One Goal

  • Royal Dutch Shell, an oil company, will use Darwin as a maintenance base for a floating processing plant for LNG from the Prelude field off Western Australia.

    ECONOMIST: Australia��s Northern Territory: Northern lights | The

  • Billionaires have been trading multimillion-dollar real estate with tremendous zeal in recent years, slapping down record sums for trophy homes while quietly floating other properties in their portfolios through brokers in unofficial, off-market offerings.

    FORBES: The Most Expensive Billionaire Homes In The World

  • It was not the best of facilities - my locker door was busted, the shallow pool was excessively chlorinated and there was nothing hot about the hot tub - but floating in a rooftop pool before getting on my flight capped off what was the most fun I have ever had in an airport and led to a deep, relaxed sleep on the plane.

    BBC: Changi: The airport of your dreams

  • Crystal Cruise ships are floating five-star palaces, and the meals and service are off the charts.

    FORBES: Limping Off To Paradise

  • The 750 or so icebergs that break off from glaciers each year and drift south from Greenland are floating masses of freshwater ice formed in the pristine air of 3, 000 B.

    FORBES: It's The Tap Of The Iceberg

  • The 750 or so icebergs that break off from glaciers each year and drift south from Greenland are floating masses of freshwater ice formed in the pristine air of 5, 000 years ago.

    FORBES: It's The Tap Of The Iceberg

  • 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.

    BBC: Science & Environment

  • If you want to go off those well-trod paths, however, there are still more options floating around on the Web.

    FORBES: Toys Your Techie Friends Will Love

  • Research into floating turbines is underway and, as Professor Garvey points out there are steep ocean shelves off the west coast of France and Portugal and around the entire periphery of the Mediterranean.

    CNN: Where to store wind-powered energy? Under water!

  • Barmac's Ardersier yard has been building two 'topside' deck modules for the floating rig being fabricated for the development of the Terra Nova field, on the Grand Banks, off Newfoundland.

    BBC: Oil union in Canadian jobs quest

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