Some start-up entrepreneurs say super angels have thrown them lifelines they couldn't secure from venture capitalists.
Meanwhile, many people in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures are still struggling with no lifelines at all.
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Those lifelines have been jettisoned to the ECB and the political quagmire that is the European Union.
But these precious lifelines are even more precarious than that.
Following a weekend of negotiations among officials, the U.S. government plans to extend several financial lifelines--but not a bailout--to the beleaguered mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Meanwhile, Parreira handed World Cup lifelines to a trio of forgotten internationals as he prepares for Monday's departure to Germany, where South Africa will be based until the end of April.
Congress needs to extend that tax cut -- along with vital insurance lifelines for folks who've lost their jobs during this recession -- and they need to do it now, without drama and without delay.
Or the Federal Reserve could add to the alphabet soup of lifelines created in the last year to handle the credit crisis, including a variety of auction and loan programs to help banks deal with troubled balance sheets.
The originals and true replicas sport minimal accoutrements above deck, a wheel that stands alone near the stern like a stranded preacher's lectern and no rails or lifelines to catch passengers who lose their footing on a steeply slanting deck.
The newly hot instruments are financial lifelines for publicly traded biotech companies that need funds to accelerate drug development, want to offload some risk in the process and want to delay the day they might license their drug candidates to Big Pharma.
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