stay afloat

Under current law, when a lender forgives part of a mortgage to help its customer stay afloat, that amount is treated as taxable income.

The fifty-foot whale was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat.

When your legs and hips start to sink, make slight adjustment at the top end of your body just to stay afloat.

AIG has received more public funds to stay afloat than any other firm, with the government owning an 80%-stake in the company.

The boat was finally submerged and he struggled to stay afloat.

But now, despite initial high hopes for the deal, the company is struggling to stay afloat.

One woman came to see me repeatedly, asking me foradvice and products that could help her stay afloat with all the stuff she hadto organize.

Now the company is struggling to stay afloat as dollops of debt come due and clients tap credit lines.

The shouting and acrimony have died down, and the mainstream physics community remains largely unconvinced that the theory can stay afloat.

Military officials said Shinkawa was lucky that mild weather and relatively calm seas enabled him to stay afloat for nearly two days.

She ran a leather shop, and was finding it increasingly difficult to stay afloat after the GDR authorities stopped her deliveries.

Other potential contenders have gone out of business or are struggling to stay afloat.

While many stalwart industries are struggling to stay afloat, microfinance continues to thrive, as I described in my post yesterday.

It runs a fairly substantial trade deficit, so it depends on remittances and direct investment to stay afloat.

The company didn't need the money to stay afloat, but to keep its banks happy.

The homogeneous society may have to rely on foreign immigrant labour to stay afloat , Jeon warned.

Members of the middle cIass were no longer financing their lifestyles through earnings but were using credit to stay afloat.

These days, however, decreased demand has left China's textile factories struggling to stay afloat, with many having already gone under.

Many of these companies had systems that worked well, but none processed enough payments to stay afloat.

To compete and stay afloat in a world of fast-shifting investment, the traditional companies had to improve their performance.

Eric Levin, founder of Criminal Records, an eight-employee Atlanta record store, is trying a different strategy to stay afloat.

Experience has shown that a desperate, drowning person will grasp at even a few pieces of dry straw floating in the water to stay afloat .

Maintaining their interest will be crucial if Nicaragua is to stay afloat when Venezuela's generosity runs out.

A $200 billion programme is helping Kremlin-linked companies stay afloat (and also consolidating the authorities' control of the economy).

Fighting to stay afloat, Endris thought he saw the dolphins form a protective wall between him and the great white.

Some reckon that MFI clients are able to stay afloat only by borrowing from one microlender to repay another.

The World Trade Center United Family group, run by victims' families, also lost its funding this year but is struggling to stay afloat.

Chronically understaffed and under-funded, your team struggles to stay afloat.

Unfazed that a battered dory refuses to stay afloat, children of Dangriga amuse themselves along the shore.

General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC need billions of dollars in government loans to stay afloat.

None of which is good when you're fighting to stay afloat in a competitive work environment.

Many now sell tourist trinkets to stay afloat, cramming their stalls with souvenirs.

The firm managed to stay afloat during the recession.

These days, Belarus is largely dependent on foreign handouts to stay afloat.

There is a less modern approach to football that every now and then forces clubs to sell big players to stay afloat.

Or just satisfy our curiosity about how ants cooperate to stay afloat.

Economy is not good. They struggle to stay afloat.

The numbers can get overwhelming and the question becomes: How does America stay afloat?

They need further money production to stay afloat.

He's struggling to stay afloat in a sea of debt.

His contracts dried up, and to stay afloat, he used loans and credit cards, racking up $85, 000 in debt.

More and more couples are in two-job families -- and sometimes hold down more than one job apiece to stay afloat.

Confronting the exigency of cost control , entrepreneurs are pressed to find a quick fix to stay afloat .

They help them to stay afloat while they get better.

Not all are doing well, of course, with institutions such as UBS and Citigroup still struggling to stay afloat.

One, in Hubei Province, opened a box factory in the 1990s to stay afloat.

Many of them have jobs that require them to dip into credit lines just to stay afloat.

Are you moving toward your dreams for your life, or just making a living and managing to stay afloat?

Even faded stars such as Jackson can stay afloat with the promise of income from comebacks like his now-aborted concert series.

If Yahoo and ABC can plug each other's holes, both can stay afloat.

"I have a family; I can't take a $10-an-hour job and still stay afloat. "

made in china . . . wonder how long it'll stay afloat?

The company needs to shut down three subsidiaries in order to stay afloat,

The local newspaper is struggling to stay afloat,

you can stay afloat by kicking constantly

tried to swim and stay afloat