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Budget issues continue to plague the Obama Administration as well as Harvard—the University’s endowment dropped $11 billion from 2008 to 2009—but both federal and University-wide measures have sought to keep student aid and research funding afloat despite difficult economic times...
This system, Simmons says, explains Cambridge’s ability to stay afloat for so long while it chooses a permanent captain...
Menkiti says he wants to stick with his little poetry shop, regardless of the difficulties of keeping it financially afloat...
...gadget company. And that's the problem: Motorola was once renowned for manufacturing ultra-chic mobile phones. Yet since 2006, that business has been in free fall, and the company's overall revenue has dropped by half. The recession didn't help much. Keeping the $22 billion firm afloat were its less glamorous but profitable units that sell two-way police radios, barcode scanners and networking equipment for telecom carriers...
...stressed the need for easier credit to keep small businesses afloat...