"I don't think anything there was a surprise. What the assessment says is basically, things are catastrophically bad in Afghanistan, which is,I'd say, objectively true, but that things are not unsalvageable, that we can turn this around as long as we stay dedicated to the appropriate strategy and fully resource that strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

"Half our farm has been unsalvageable because it's been waterlogged or flooded, " she said.

BBC: Flooding on the Somerset Levels at Glastonbury

Other times a situation may prove unsalvageable, and then making a job change is the only road to redemption.

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Another plus from the Sogo saga could be less future intervention in the painful but necessary culling of unsalvageable companies.

CNN: Bankrupt Sogo