THEY'RE VERY pretty scattered over a salad or floating on the surface of a chilled spring soup.
Most are familiar with CPI-linked bonds such as TIPS or floating-rate bonds.
All the while, Milton Friedman kept pointing out that these crises would all go away if we went to a system of flexible or floating exchange rates.
Some Baroque painters eventually achieved a bit of revenge by devising illusionistic frescoes that appear to demolish nave vaults and domes to reveal the divine occupants of a sunlit heaven sitting on or floating around clouds.
In addition to seeing and barely believing the animals so up- close, an Endeavor expedition offers long and short hikes, coastal explorations by kayaks or Zodiacs, swimming, snorkeling, or floating in a glass bottom boat for amazing undersea viewing.
Things like that could be something as simple as non-traded real estate investment trusts, or secured floating-rate income, as opposed to fixed income or bonds.
As has been widely noted, much of the electorate seems locked into one side or the other in this campaign, and the share of voters truly undecided or still floating between the candidates isn't large.
If interest rates rise, active fixed-income investors could invest in short-term bonds, which tend to remain fairly stable in rising rate environments, or use floating rate funds, which are more insulated from the negative impact of rising rates.
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Whether or not a caisson was used, the oil from the containment assembly would then pass through a manifold a sort of switching yard for pipes to one or more floating risers leading to the surface and held vertical by buoys.
Floating or stationary platforms are very costly, and working in the maritime environment involves super-expensive and highly customized technology.
And it is hardly the sort of message that is going to galvanise Labour supporters or win over floating voters.
One is to turn back the clock on financial integration: then pure-floating or semi-fixed systems might once again be used successfully.
More than a few so-called cherries have proven to be held together with chewing gum or rubber bands, or were found floating in some swamp after a hurricane.
The white of his expansive tabletops in paintings like "The Table" and "The White Table Cloth" resembles an emission of light rather than a pigment, so the haphazardly strewn plates and baskets appear to be floating or suspended in space.
Inner tubes can be hired in Palomino, and after an hour or two of floating, just before the cool river spits you into the warmer sea, there is a rope on the right side that you can use to do your best Tarzan flip into the water.
To be clear, are they just being shown the photos, or are there copies floating around the Hill?
In a typical interest-rate swap, one party agrees to exchange a fixed-rate obligation with another that has a floating, or variable, rate exposure.
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One problem is that the block's two largest members have such different currency regimes: Brazil's floating (or sinking) real has lost over 40% of its value since its forced devaluation in 1999, whereas Argentina's peso is pegged to the dollar.
Mr Uren was taking part in a relay race in which services personnel had to run up to the inflatable pool, get in over the side and grab a piece of plastic fruit floating in or under a shallow depth of water.
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.
Depending on whether floating rates rise or fall, one will end up owing money to the other.
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The term describes small natural fireballs which very occasionally follow ordinary lightning, floating across land or through buildings and aircraft.
In a pre-recorded BBC interview, Mr Blair dismissed any suggestion that Labour had to choose between targeting the party's core supporters or Middle England's floating voters.
With a coal gasifier, it is far easier to extract greenhouse emissions, so that they can be stored or reused, instead of floating into the atmosphere.
For those buy-out shops that presciently bought undervalued assets in 2002 and 2003, returns today from selling, floating, refinancing or otherwise liquidating earlier investments have been spectacular.
Little ones might enjoy working off some steam with a swing, slide and spin at the large playground just across from the imposing India Gate, or hop into a kitsch floating swan for a round of the boating lake nearby.
When put inside powerful computer servers, the Cell consortium expects it to be capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or calculations, every second.
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Floating in the ocean or dead.
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