Word: afloat
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...much for the independent hog farmer. George Bailey is one of that fading breed; he owns 650 sows in Walstonburg, N.C., and unlike corporate megafarms, isn't blessed with deep pockets. In the past year Bailey has had to use most of his savings just to stay afloat, and he still racked up $35,000 in additional debt. "We're slowly going broke," he notes. "The [meat] packers are making a killing...
...York Times, in what had to be the understatement of the winter. But Lott may not be there for long. "He's going to hear it from conservatives who want a full-blown trial," says Carney. "Clearly, he's floating a trial balloon, and seeing how long it stays afloat." A few weeks is all he needs...
...board meeting in January. For now, Greenspan rates a gushy Christmas card for helping the rest of the world get through an economic crisis that, so far, Americans have only read about. Around the world, U.S. rate cuts provided the world with cheaper dollars to borrow, keeping domestic currencies afloat all over Asia. As we head into the holidays, the blaze is out, at least for now. And Greenspan the fireman is back on thermostat duty...
...inch a disciplinarian, Primakov has not yet been able to shake the new government into shape. Ministers contradict one another in public. They unnerve the markets and the IMF with widely varying figures for the amount of new money that will have to be printed to keep the economy afloat. Primakov, meanwhile, has struck some visitors as strangely removed from the day-to-day business of government. A senior diplomat recalled a recent high-level meeting with the new Prime Minister. "We asked about foreign policy," the diplomat said, "and Primakov waved his hand and referred us to Ivanov...
What's going on? Though Coors' profits helped start the conservative Heritage Foundation and still keep right-wing causes afloat, the brewer has bottom-line reasons for behaving more like a commune than a company: its bad reputation with minorities and unions nearly devastated Coors in the early 1980s. A p.r. turnaround was urgently needed. The spending targets for minority vendors, for example, result from a "covenant" the company signed with black and Hispanic groups in 1984 in an effort to make up for a racially charged speech by William Coors, one of the brothers who has worked...