Ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese woodblock prints, translates as an "image of the floating world, " and the scent does seem to evoke an image for me of irises floating in a secluded lake.
Finance Minister Taro Aso is in no position again to test the patience of the floating free world.
These musics were already floating through the world but it was in Panama where they could meet at this bridge between cultures.
But there is little appetite to abandon the world of floating exchange rates, while free trade talks, also encouraged at Bretton Woods, have stalled.
But this is mainly a world of floating exchange rates.
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Back in the world of floating exchange rates, countries wishing to have a trading advantage can manipulate their currency to be low and thereby have ultra-competitive prices for export goods.
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.
Floating that information into the cyber world always carries the risk of identity theft, Forzley points out.
But the world was left with unstable floating exchange rates and all of their troubles.
Today the world uses a system of floating exchange rates based on "fiat" or government-created money.
Lots of money floating around in that part of the world could sustain prices on the high side.
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On a clear day you can see 80 miles and five states and on an overcast one you are floating in the clouds, detached from the world below.
This world has enough clout and money floating around that no one company s ever going to have the kind of power that Apple needs to maintain its aesthetic.
Plastic floating in the five sub-tropical gyres of the world, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, are two petroleum disasters.
As a result, every time the floating dollar moves, prices and the value of investments the world over are distorted.
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While Google chose not to take advantage of the situation to show the unicorn Nexus to the world, real-life units have been discovered floating around Moscone West.
In a recent leaked letter to the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, Mr Ramesh mulled going further, floating the idea that India should be less bound to its developing-world allies and take bolder mitigation steps.
An astronaut, in the most proverbial floating-through-space sense, is a brave man who has the world gawking at him.
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In the early nineties, after traveling the world and drawing as he went, Stephen published his second book, Floating Cities, garnering more acclaim.
The group has created a floating campus -- dubbed the Scholar Ship -- which will transport 700 students around the world as they complete their studies.
Floating beneath them was an almost illicit pleasure--like I was hiding out from the world, in a place no one would even think to look--made all the sweeter for the contrast with the structure's history.
There are some complaints floating around about 3G reception, but it's been just fine on our review units around the world so far.
This half-build system achieved the world's best LINPACK(2) benchmark performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second), to place it at the head of the TOP500 list.
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The result: a virtual supercomputer capable of crunching 6 trillion floating point operations per second, or 6 teraflops, equivalent to one of the ten most powerful computers in the world.
Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia earned the number one ranking on the industry standard Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday, June 18, at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany.
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