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In a preposterous celebration of London's blitz spirit, the faces of the victims are printed on the side of WWII air balloons which float above the city in every shot.
The thing that makes the movie float above the rest of camp classics is the fact that it is based on an informative book by Joan's daughter, Christina.
I am not a fan of movies about people who live their lives in a pointless way, and when given the options to act sit like zombies and let the river of life float them downstream.
It's "African Queen" meets "Gator Girls" complete with diamonds, booze, guns, a homemade spear and an alligator that can't float.
This is one of my favorite Jackie Chan movies, even though it's so light and fluffy it seems ready to just float off into thin air at any moment.
The tip of her fingers will float in a container that was supposed to be filled with water but will be colored red instead.
I'm in the scene where someone supposedly puts helium in the basketballs and they float to the top of the Civic Arena.
And, they find time to kiss amidst a raging storm.For all the trials and tribulations she supposedly went through, she seemed almost retarded with the constant laughing and giggling and running down to the water to jump in and float around "watching God".
The songs by Clifford Grey, Herb Nacio Brown, Edward Eliscu and Bruno Granichstaedten are mildly pleasant, nothing more, and a musical with a boring book (by Sidney Howard, of all people!) needs superior songs to float, and these second- rate numbers don't help.
This is a real sign of a great actor, who can float between a wide diverse number of different roles, from comedy, to serious drama, to Super Hero, and wicked criminal, to any serious drama and horror characters.
Mexico was able to float along, buoyed by billions of dollars of oil revenue, without having to swim more quickly or forcefully than its competitors in the sea of emerging markets.
What the current crisis has proved is that Mexico cannot continue to float, ignoring its nakedness.
In the second scenario, a two- or three-tiered Europe includes a two-tiered euro, with the weaker countries using a separate “euro-B” currency that can float against the stronger economies’ “euro-A.”
Countries that float their currencies can be free to set interest rates and determine financial conditions at home, even with substantial international capital mobility.
A famous map painted by my friend and compatriot Saul Steinberg depicts the global village as seen from Manhattan: the distance from the Hudson River to the Pacific Ocean is the same as the distance from Ninth to Tenth Avenue on the Upper West Side, and somewhere beyond the calm ocean float Russia, China, and Japan.
And there is still a reluctance to let the currency float, something that would discourage Chinese firms from accumulating such large foreign-currency-denominated obligations.
Even countries that practice inflation targeting and have otherwise vowed to let their exchange rates float – Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Chile, for example – have done it, and in large quantities.
Participating countries could allow their currencies to float, or they could operate a fixed exchange rate.
But, in the real world, many countries, particularly but not limited to small, open economies, simply find it impractical or undesirable to permit their currency to float.
But if the RMB is allowed to float, isn’t a balanced trade account likely?
If not disposed of properly, plastics can lie or float around for decades.
That experience was marked by the attempt to use a fixed exchange-rate regime as the main policy instrument to control inflation; that attempt’s colossal failure; and the shift, over the last decade, to more flexible regimes, freeing the exchange rate from playing a central role in controlling inflation, but not necessarily allowing a pure float in world currency markets.
There is little doubt that substantial foreign reserves, together with the flexibility to float and intervene, have mitigated the impact of the recent crisis on Latin America, and contributed to its emergence as one of the best-performing regions in an era of deep uncertainty elsewhere.
Luckily, China's government knows that America's advice to let the renminbi float right now is dangerous--both to China and for the world economy.
Much of the concern over the past few years has centered on America’s yawning current account and fiscal deficits, and its effort to get China to let the yuan float more freely against the dollar.
Such support is clearly unsustainable; in fact, the CBR recently announced that it will allow the ruble to float, implying an exchange rate that reflects the market’s expectations concerning oil prices and future capital outflows.
One approach might be simply to let the renminbi float without official intervention or controls on capital inflows.
Some emerging economies did not let their currencies float but, instead, continued to peg them at undervalued exchange rates in order to promote their exports and build up reserves as a form of insurance in case of crisis.
China was urged not to float its currency.
If China had let its currency float back then, it would have depreciated in value, deepening the crisis.
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