And raft downstream.

A raft? That's it!

Break out a raft.

Why, I even built a raft.

Maybe we'd better get the raft back.

So the water is churned through this raft.

On a raft, 37 days, nothing but water.

Rubber raft, air pump, flares, tank of water.

Remember that great scene on the raft, remember what Huck did?

We'll take the raft and when the whale opens his mouth...

We'll build a raft and drift across the Pacific like KonTiki.

After 1998, we had rapidly put in place a raft of measures.

I had two cats... which I brought ashore... on my first raft.

There's a raft of research, but I know it from my personal life.

Build a raft and float with the current ... till we meet a boat

And Huck gets on the raft with a property named Jim, a slave, see.

Gee whiz, I could use that as a raft in case the boat sunk.

A professionally constructed solution pump airlift operation that incorporates a lengthy pontoon raft and divers

And dream of a wide river... a raft... and us rushing to where people are.

And this glorious, readily available device is basically a floating raft with an oyster nursery below.

We caught it with that low tech raft and it was carrying six tons of cocaine.

And then he took this whole raft of 45 spaghetti sauces, and he went on the road.

Well, old Huckleberry's on this crazy raft with Jim, and they run into this old, deserted houseboat.

And this has been demonstrated in a whole raft of fascinating studies comparing one kind of placebo against another.

'Anybody up on that raft with you?' Huck says, 'Yeah.' 'Is he black or white?' 'White.' And they go off.

In India, for example, increasing productivity and long term growth require fiscal discipline and a raft of financial and labor market reforms. But the central bank is being asked to do all the heavy lifting.

On the friday before saint John when the nobles' barn sank in the state of water so low, it has no witness in past, find an exit on a raft, according to the words of writings.

The Special Committee's consideration of that report, and the raft of reforms that we have agreed to implement as a result, demonstrates the progress that can be made in increasing accountability and discipline in United Nations peace operations.

Preemption by Gazprom has been accomplished through a raft of acquisitions. Gazprom has flooded the market in Turkey, withheld gas in Ukraine, threatened to do so in Belarus, and offered preferential market access to willing partners, such as Italy.

A bundle of logs lashed together in a raft even if it lacks a rudder has a clear advantage over a single storm tossed trunk. The higher the waves of doubt and uncertainty become, the more the common approach is needed.

For example, the biggest threat to the stability of the world in the next ten years comes from the risk of international conflict. And the menace of war is followed by a raft of social, environmental, geopolitical, technological, and economic risks and trends.

So the outcome no longer depends only on their willingness to cooperate in order to navigate the raft to safety. It also hinges on their ability to do so in the midst of natural forces that are increasingly difficult to control and overcome.

Thus, the real game becomes which nations get to suck up other nations tax financed subsidies. Apart from the resulting global inefficiency, this also creates a whole new raft of industry players that will keep pushing inefficient legislation, simply because it fills their coffers.

Moreover, the Chinese authorities have launched a raft of reforms aimed at opening the economy and making it more market oriented, and have announced plans to liberalize interest and exchange rates and continue to ease restrictions on cross border capital flows. All of this will strengthen the renminbi s claim to reserve currency status.

Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.

WASHINGTON, DC China s success in establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has been widely regarded as a diplomatic fiasco for the United States. After discouraging all US allies from joining the AIIB, President Barack Obama s administration watched as Great Britain led a raft of Western European countries, followed by Australia and South Korea, into doing just that.

BEIJING History will be the ultimate judge, but there is good reason to believe that China s recently completed Third Plenum will come to be regarded as a pivotal moment in the country s development. At long last, China s senior leadership has endorsed a raft of reforms that could impel the economy s shift from reliance on exports to consumption led growth.

A raft of populist policies underpinned his first four year government, from rural debt suspension and cheap universal healthcare to handing out 25,000 to each of 77,000 villages for entrepreneurial start up funds. Reminiscent of development strategies prevalent in East Asia, Thaksin picked strategic niche industries to propel Thailand s economic expansion, focusing on automobiles, fashion, food, healthcare, and tourism.

MADRID The recent downgrade of Brazil s credit rating to junk status was followed by a raft of articles heralding the crumbling of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). How predictable schadenfreude almost always follows bad news about the BRICS, whose members were once hailed as the world s up and coming economic powerhouses and next major political force.

For example, when Hugo Chávez was first elected President in 1998, the Venezuelan bolívar could be exchanged for 2,610 Colombian pesos. Today, despite a raft of foreign exchange controls, a bolívar is worth barely 300 pesos at the official exchange rate (which is soon to be readjusted) one would be lucky to get 30 pesos at the black market rate.

The failure for more than a year to make any progress in negotiations with Israel has convinced Abbas and his colleagues to pursue the UN option. And Israel s continuing settlement construction on the West Bank has sharpened their sense that negotiations would not be productive, whereas the raft of UN resolutions supporting a two state solution could now be put to the test.

Some countries, like the United States and Australia, chose to opt out of its stringent demands others, like Canada, Japan, and a raft of European states, pay lip service to its requirements but will essentially miss its targets. Yet, even if everyone had participated and continued to stick to Kyoto s ever more stringent commitments, it would have had virtually no environmental effect.

LONDON The arrest of FIFA executives on a raft of fraud and corruption charges has been front page news in recent days. But the charges brought by the Swiss and American authorities focus on bribery and embezzlement, and do not address another egregious injustice the treatment of the migrant workers in Qatar who are building the stadiums for the 2022 FIFA Football World Cup.

But eurozone leaders inability to assuage doubt about their commitment to the euro after two and a half years of crisis suggests that the problem is deeply rooted. In their own defense, eurozone ministers point to the raft of reforms that they have introduced over the past 30 months, which will promote economic modernization, the restoration of sound government finances, and closer economic coordination.