Word: afloat
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...have bewildered many. Yet ambiguity is an essential part of diplomacy in managing a crisis this complex. Especially when dealing with an adversary like Saddam, whose future intentions are hidden, and with allies whose own interests are so different, the U.S. needs to keep a variety of signals afloat. Part of the message must sound unavoidably paradoxical: the best hope of avoiding war is to scare Saddam by making a credible threat of waging it, and the only way to make such a threat credible is by really meaning...
Before the week ended, the controversy had spilled over into national politics. There were congressional calls for the wealthy conservatives who keep the Review afloat to cease their contributions. The incident, said Massachusetts Democrat Chester G. Atkins, was "yet another example of this publication's policy of whipping up hate...
Milken had profitably discovered that S&Ls could use junk bonds in two ways: to borrow money for expansion and to invest money for a high rate of return. M.D.C.'s Mizel, hard pressed by the economic downturn in Denver and kept afloat by insider swaps with Silverado, met the junk-bond king in Manhattan and became Milken's enthusiastic client. So too did the influential Norman Brownstein, an M.D.C. board member and Mizel's attorney, who lobbied in Washington in favor of the use of junk bonds...
Donald Trump is up to his neck in debt, and his bankers are getting nervous. He may have to shrink his empire to stay afloat. -- A new theme park is off to a shaky but promising start...
...decreasing market. The other is the declining popularity of women-only education. Currently, just 3% to 11% of high school women say they would consider a women's college. Taken together, these changes have made it difficult for many all-female colleges to attract enough students to keep themselves afloat...