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1. The company managed to keep afloat.
2. The ship was afloat at last.
3. maintaining inefficient firms afloat;
4. Maintaining inefficient firms afloat
5. It serves to keep an ailing firm afloat for the time needed to work out a restructuring or liquidation plan.
6. They are designed to be worn by children around the arms in order to keep them afloat in shallow water.
7. Therefore, it was estimated that for the first half of 2006 about EUR 5 million were needed to keep the company afloat.
8. Operating aid can be allowed only in as far as is necessary to keep the company afloat pending implementation of far-reaching restructuring.
9. In this highly competitive market only the best undertakings can survive. By artificially keeping a company afloat, the interests of the sector are harmed.
10. Similarly, the private nature of investment decisions will ensure that the measure will not have the effect of keeping inefficient firms or sectors afloat or to modify the allocation of production factors between regions.
11. This competitor concludes that, as a European producer operating in the very competitive market for fluorite, it cannot accept a situation where a single company is kept afloat by means of large state transfers over many years.
12. In November 2003, the Netherlands notified its plan to grant the company a EUR 45 million loan as rescue aid under the guidelines to enable the company to stay afloat whilst preparing a wide-ranging restructuring plan.
13. The 1999 guidelines made a distinction between rescue aid and restructuring aid, whereby rescue aid was defined as temporary assistance to keep an ailing firm afloat for the time needed to work out a restructuring and/or a liquidation plan.
14. Given that Hynix was virtually bankrupt during the IP and remained afloat only through the subsidies provided by the GOK, it can be concluded that the worldwide overcapacity situation has been artificially maintained through the subsidisation of Hynix.
15. Consequently, it considers that the delay by France in recovering the Article 44 septies aid until January 2005 — that is to say, three years after the creation of FagorBrandt — did not have the effect of keeping artificially afloat a company which would otherwise have exited the market.