Italian Coast Guard officials said emergency generators were keeping the ship's control room illuminated and communications equipment such as radios running.

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Among those who have lent their support to keeping the ship in Belfast is the former Northern Ireland Office minister, Sir Richard Needham.

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It has to do with keeping his team on board, keeping the ship from sinking and the hiding of facts that are important.

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They are not up by much in that period, but they are not retracting either and voters may reward Obama for keeping the ship afloat when even bigger ships like Europe are in dire straits with unemployment over 20 percent in countries like Spain.

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Bringing these employees into offices will only hurt morale, increase real estate costs and push out several valuable workers who have been diligently keeping afloat a severely damaged Yahoo ship.

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In its Italian operations, Generali runs the tightest ship in the industry, keeping claims and expenses lower in relation to premiums than its rivals.

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We can keeping giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that are opening new plants and training new workers, and creating new jobs right here in the United States of America.

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In 1761, a British carpenter named John Harrison built the first marine chronometer, capable of keeping time on board a rolling boat and providing ship captains with a way to determine their longitude during a voyage.

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