On the SS Russia, however, Captain Boris Yeltsin and his rebellious crew have wasted valuable salvage time haggling about who should be the next chief engineer.
And savvy travellers can have their cake and eat it too – that is, salvage time and money for leisure travel – with a few common-sense tips.
If for T.S Eliot, in The Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages, "Time the destroyer is time the preserver," to Ecclesiastes, time the giver is always also time the taker, and nothing remains that is not unravelled by its passage.
Meanwhile, due to unclear cause of the disease, fatal cases, including this patient, had not been given the anti-influenza drugs such as neuraminidase inhibitors (oseltamivir) as soon as possible and within 2∼4 days of disease onset, leading to loss of valuable salvage time for the severe cases.
To salvage "me time" and keep kids occupied, parents are increasingly relying on screens to babysit their precious offspring.
Desks are piled high with books, papers and mid-20th-century office salvage – at times the stage is so jammed with period junk it resembles a repository.
In a pathetic bid to salvage the Times' reputation, the tone has changed in a matter of months from rallying behind Miller as some sort of martyr figure (that was amusing while it lasted) to casting her off as the evil villain, as a cunning, dastardly reporter who somehow "misled" everybody.
Some traders say the banks will have a rough time salvaging much of their investment.
Jimmy seems initially to be the Last Man: he spends his time salvaging tins of food, and dodging monstrous transgenic animals, such as "Pigoons", crafty pigs with partly-human brains and a taste for flesh, as well as "wolvogs", "liobams" and so on.
The one person who's really acknowledged the consequences of nationalizing the banks is the economist John Quiggin, who writes: Once the big banks are nationalized, the government can take its time salvaging whatever assets are still worthwhile and preparing for the reconstruction of a private banking system under a completely new system of regulation, a task that is likely to take several years.
