Returning to the present, he said of the deal announced this week: "It was time in the history of my country, and time in my own history, to make things shipshape, to get rid of the debt, to get a bit of a cash box to work from, to enjoy life a little more".
The growing crop of super-long-haul flights -- Chicago to Shanghai on American Airlines began this spring; New York J.F.K. to Mumbai on Delta starts soon -- is a convenience with a caveat: 14-plus hours in the air can wreak havoc on your body, and new carry-on regulations prohibiting water, lotions and toothpaste make staying shipshape more difficult than ever.
Measuring 16 feet from bow to stern (the 12 1/2 refers to its waterline length), the Haven has a draft of 18 inches with the centerboard up, making it shipshape for trailering and shoal-draft sailing.
And for the salvagers - maritime scavengers who are preparing to bid for the business of either making it shipshape again, or dismembering it for scrap, or even sending it to the bottom - the Costa Concordia poses one of the most daunting recovery tasks ever tackled.
To help passengers get shipshape and resist the buffet, cruise ships are offering everything from beefed-up gyms to macrobiotic menus.
But making public finances shipshape for the euro while keeping his supporters and coalition partners happy will be hard.
With a restaurant that's popular with locals too – especially for its ickily named "boozy snoozy" Sunday lunches – this makes a very shipshape base.
It needs a $5 million overhaul to replace the steel and otherwise make her, as they say, shipshape.
"I think we've got to get the economy and our budget into shipshape order, and then we have a chance to actually make this thing work on reducing taxes".
Sixteen guest rooms were sliced out of the dorms and filled with shipshape furniture made locally in pine and oak and modern versions in fruity colors of the traditional striped fabrics of the neighboring Basque region.
Mr Sisi needs to make Egyptians feel richer or risk the same fate.In this section The high cost of falling prices False hope The Saudi project, part two Currency peace Pyramid scheme Shipshape It takes 28 to tango Worse than nothing The Saudi project, part two ReprintsThere is some reason for optimism.
