21.   On Capitol Hill, both parties are floating proposals to help the economy.

22.   Only one proposal has been floated so far, and it is hardly the comprehensive solution that bondholders seek.

23.   Other countries, including Japan, have been floating proposals for the Fed to lead a move among the most powerful economies to bring rates down around the globe.

24.   Proposals are regularly floated to improve the way the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences conducts the Oscars.

25.   Russia is pressing for a diplomatic solution to the current flareup, dispatching envoys and floating proposals to Iraq to make the inspections more palatable.

26.   Schroeder has floated proposals for a federalist system, with a stronger central government and a stronger role for the European Parliament.

27.   Several compromise proposals were floated during a series of closed-door meetings Wednesday between key lawmakers, but few details were available about what those proposals contained.

28.   Several proposals are being floated to keep commerce flowing.

29.   Six years ago, when the Clinton administration floated its proposal, the concept was relatively new.

30.   Spending bills are drafted in secret, proposals are floated in private huddles, deals are hatched in hideaways.