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bailout
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A bailout is a colloquial term for giving financial support to a company or country which faces serious financial difficulty or bankruptcy . It may also be used to allow a failing entity to fail gracefully without spreading contagion . A bailout can, but ...
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n. 1 a rescue, especially a financial rescue 2 a backup supply of air in scuba diving
Usage examples of bailout.
The human operator couldn’t bailout in time and she came out of it paralyzed.
Dors had probably been operating under the assumption that the failure to bailout was a temporary error.
The poor quality of life-saving gear that had been sent to us, I wrote, added to the risk of an emergency bailout from a disabled airplane and escape-and-evasion in hostile territories.
Memoir: Parachute Logistics, Korean War, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1949-1950 Preface This memoir concerns a decision I made at the outbreak of the Korean War for procurement of aircrew emergency bailout parachutes for the United States Air Force (USAF).
Decision Rather than procure 50,000 man-carrying (emergency bailout) parachutes as complete assemblies, e.
At the 'maximum' age of 7 years, personnel parachutes were, by USAF regulation, to be removed from further service for aircrew emergency bailout, although they could be used for cargo drops.
Priorities My highest priorities for USAF in Korea were aircrew parachutes, aircraft emergency life preservers, aircrew emergency bailout survival kits (attached to parachute harnesses), oxygen masks, and components ('components,' for instance, took into account that inflatable life preservers are not much help to an aircrew member floating in the sea if the CO2 inflation cartridges had not been checked and installed or had been discharged for an unauthorized purpose.
There was a pause, then the voice from the speaker added softly, "Bailout failure.
You might get a double wave, one crest on top of another, and that would force an early bailout.
The only winners in this deal are the taxpayers of Miami, who will be spared their annual $500,000 bailout of Ralph's party.
It's also no surprise that cane growers are turning for a bailout to their favorite slobbering lapdogs, the state politicians in Tallahassee.
With the Combat Talon now climbing to drop altitude, the men had all switched to bottled oxygen from their bailout bottles.
His bailout bottle, the size of a small fire extinguisher, was strapped to his left side.
Their bailout bottles and masks--Murdock found his mask had snagged somehow beneath his reserve chute pack--went too, sinking into nine hundred feet of water.
She told the senator he should attack NASA's huge budget overruns and continued White House bailouts as the quintessential example of President Herney's careless overspending.