31.   Dreading another budget summit, Republicans are now floating the idea of across-the-board spending cuts.

32.   Even in July, when Tenneco first publicly floated the idea that it would split, its stock rallied just a bit, and then sank.

33.   Ever since Arianna Huffington first floated the idea of a Beatty candidacy, it has been the cause of mirth.

34.   Floating the idea on big screens could influence zealots to try it.

35.   Five years ago, the Arizona Space Commission began floating the idea of turning the base into a commercial launch facility.

36.   For a few days this fall, one prominent conservative politician tried to float the idea of an amnesty for old corruption cases.

37.   For the last three years, she has floated the idea of home-schooling them, but they have resisted the idea, she said.

38.   Fox and other Mexican officials have been floating the idea of a guest-worker program that would allow Mexican labor into the United States.

39.   Fox floated the idea of granting amnesty to Mexicans who entered the United States illegally and have take up residence here.

40.   Friends and associates have floated ideas ranging from celebrity law partner or baseball commissioner to corporate CEO or future political candidate.