At Senate House, the staff are hostile: another confidential report from last month (seen separately) reports that when the idea was floated in staff focus groups "most of the sessions became overrun with examples of... what would be wrong if UoL had a commercial partner".
Many of the disks are decorated with the Zen-like symbol that the composer made his signature: a circle above a line, like a note floating free of its staff.
In 1916, the ship was withdrawn from active duty and was used in several secondary roles in Kiel, including acting as a floating office for naval staff.
The fact that so many former politicians and ex-staff are floating around makes for a Cold War-like situation of Mutually Assured Destruction -- each side on any given issue can hire people of equal weight.
Float pool staff were excluded although some non-float pool providers also worked in more than one unit.
Last year, John F. Kelly, President Trump's chief of staff, floated the idea while he was serving as homeland security secretary.
But she has been more successful at squashing an idea floated by the staff of Günther Oettinger, the digital commissioner, for the regulation of dozens of so-called online "platforms".
The cast of governors, senators and ex-senators, former Clinton and Democratic Party operatives and even a few token Republican mavericks were floated for his staff and cabinet picks early on.
Almost immediately afterwards, witnesses say, all staff on the floating accommodation block, Hotel Bibby, were asked to help, whether or not they had medical training.
Lately the eager environmentalist has mellowed into a more measured economist, and the Maldives has opened for business, however offbeat – from enormous floating golf courses to resorts staffed by blonde Lithuanian beauties (a forthcoming resort that will be known as the "Island of the Blondes").
