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What does "keep...afloat" mean?

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oristarA
 
Reply Fri 11 Oct, 2013 10:14 pm

Context:

NIH campus endures slow decay
Experiments suffer from lack of lab materials and staff during US government

shutdown.

Sara Reardon 11 October 2013
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A skeleton staff at the US National Institutes of Health has struggled to keep
experiments afloat.

More:
http://www.nature.com/news/nih-campus-endures-slow-decay-1.13942
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Reply Fri 11 Oct, 2013 11:27 pm
@oristarA,
It means that thay do not sink
below water (figuratively speaking -- like the Titanic in 1912).





David
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Reply Fri 11 Oct, 2013 11:29 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
Cool.
Thanks.
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