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flotation
1. The boats and craft operated by Station Duluth have included the 25-foot SAFE (Secure All-around Flotation Equipped) boat
2. The law was passed in memory of a child who drowned after falling out of a boat while not wearing a flotation device (Cederholm, “Conversation…,” 2005)
3. Coast Guard regulations required children under the age of 13 to wear personal flotation devices while in a moving boat on federal interstate waters such as the Mississippi River (“Boat Safety Bill,” 2005)
4. In the summer of 2005 Coast Guard Station Bayfield operated a 25-foot RBS (Response Boat Small), a safe boat with secure flotation support around the hull, and the capability of mounting machine guns in addition to the small arms the crew might carry
5. Some ran around wearing flotation gear
6. In desperation, Blondie deployed the aft flotation gear
7. The drag caused by the damage to the undercarriage and from the flotation air bags was enough to straighten the direction of travel, but not enough to compensate for the missing landing gear
8. She popped her drag chute almost immediately and, as Blondie had done, deployed her aft flotation gear
9. “You know that once the containers are on their flotation collars, your P I ship can as easily drag them up the river to the edge of the lake as my cargo tug can
10. They had repaired the flotation gear from both shuttles and had floated Katherine’s ship
11. The need to drop the containers into the water deep enough to absorb the shock without them hitting bottom mandated that the drop point be off shore, but not so far off shore that they could not be winched to the shore while they floated on their flotation gear once a pull cable was attached
12. His next move was to inflate her flotation vest, his hands already starting to feel cold despite of his neoprene gloves: Angie was not going to survive more than ten minutes maximum in that icy water
13. Only the combined buoyancy of his diving suit and of his flotation vest made him resurface again
14. A few minutes later, as she was finishing to place her things under her cot, Villamor brought her a flotation vest, a leather pilot’s helmet with oxygen mask and flight goggles and a parachute
15. Preceding Teresa James inside the tent assigned to both of them, Ingrid simply dropped her kit bag and suit bag on one of the two camp cots and left the tent, still wearing her flying helmet and flotation vest
16. “I will! I still have my aviator’s flotation vest
17. Taking off her rifle, bandoleer, flying helmet, boots and haversack, she tied them solidly to her flotation vest, which she inflated and then wrapped with a khaki shirt taken from a dead enemy soldier in order to hide the yellow fabric of the vest
18. Ingrid soon was thankful for the empty water bottles around her torso, as the current was not negligible and the weight of the wire started to be felt by her despite the flotation vest
19. “The pontoons are 100 meters square, with a top chamber for flotation and emergency storage, and a bottom chamber open to the sea to collect the gas, and act as the main reservoir and buffer
20. Investment banks demand more interest on bonds and higher flotation costs for stocks to
21. However, because of flotation costs of -let’s say 2 % - and a dilution
22. 3) New issues can raise the cost of equity through flotation costs
23. However, the cost of capital goes up because flotation costs have been incurred, which
24. through share issues rather than retained earnings, flotation costs are incurred and the risk of owning the stock goes up; the weighted average cost of capital rises
25. of equity is optimal, funding with retained earnings will not incur flotation costs nor will it potentially dilute the market value with new issues; any new stock issue represents a
26. issuing price -that is net of any flotation cost
27. equity issues or debt would be even more costly - in either interest payments or flotation
28. An ultra-modern aviator’s wristwatch, manufactured in 2016, along with a military pilot’s survival vest incorporating both Kevlar ballistic protection and an inflatable flotation collar, came out next
29. flotation in February 2005 and marks a major strategic move
30. At that moment a timer in the submersible, that the trawler Triton had deployed, released a small flotation device that trailed a sensing wire as it rose toward the ocean surface due to buoyancy
31. repeated at nearly every ladder I climbed and every flotation device I came across
32. Then there is the flotation of
33. These empty tanks provided flotation and brought the boat close to neutral buoyancy, almost to the point where the flotation effect from the tanks equaled the weight of the boat itself
34. The compressed air expanded the life raft’s flotation chambers, filling the entire front cabin of the boat, driving the seawater from that cabin
35. The added buoyancy of the inflated raft swung the buoyancy equation toward the flotation side
36. Your type IV throw-able flotation device should always be immediately accessible and within arm reach of the helm
37. congealed at our line of flotation
38. Some US brokers also allow small investors a chance to get in on the ground floor by participating in a flotation – what they call there an ‘initial public offering’, or IPO
39. flotation: bringing a company to the stock market to get its shares publicly traded
40. However, there has been a fair amount of activity in the common-stock flotation field since 1933, carried on by houses of secondary size or standing
41. ) There is so much to be learned, and such important warnings to be gleaned, from the story of this flotation that we have reserved it for detailed treatment below, in Chapter 17
42. By the nature of the securities markets, however, you are more likely to find such an opportunity in some older issue which has developed into a favorable position rather than in a new flotation
43. Did this fact alter the flotation, or did the advance possibility that it might happen exonerate the original distributors of the issue from responsibility for this public offering and its later sequel? Not an easy question to answer, but it deserves careful consideration by Wall Street and the government regulatory agencies
44. You can improvise a short-term flotation bag from a pair of trousers
45. "An unsinkable ship is possible, but it would be of little use except for flotation
46. THE origin of travel on water dates back to a very early period in human history, men beginning with the log, the inflated skin, the dug-out canoe, and upwards through various methods of flotation; while the paddle, the oar, and finally the sail served as means of propulsion
47. The illustration of the swim-bladder in fishes is a good one, because it shows us clearly the highly important fact that an organ originally constructed for one purpose, namely flotation, may be converted into one for a widely different purpose, namely respiration
48. He tried ninety-eight seeds, mostly different from mine, but he chose many large fruits, and likewise seeds, from plants which live near the sea; and this would have favoured both the average length of their flotation and their resistance to the injurious action of the salt-water
