Though their home was under the evacuation order, the couple decided to stay, keeping an eye on a creek that had been cleaned up after the fire to keep it from becoming engorged by rain.
"The bad news is that corporates are not yet convinced that the reflationary trend is here to stay, keeping capital expenditure weak.
But the city contended that its appeal triggered a stay keeping the new law in effect.
An appellate court eventually granted him a stay, keeping him in office and the village in mayoral limbo.
"The more protracted a stay keeping in place a constitutionally defective standard," the judge wrote, "the more severe the continuing First Amendment injury".
The Supreme Court did not grant the stay, keeping in place the appeals court order that the district judge, Barbara Walther, vacate her rulings giving the state custody.
Then came the hard part -- staying together, staying organized, keeping the pressure up -- hurdles that usually end the tough talk and high aims of tenant groups.
At least one staff organizer stayed put, keeping a desk for a while in the cluttered county Democratic office.
Somehow, I stayed upright, keeping the pace I had established a lifetime ago during the dark, cool miles leaving Durban.
As the ship slowly went down by the head, the engineers and firemen stayed below, keeping its electrics working until the final moments.
But in each case Parcells stayed silent, keeping his employers on a need-to-know-little basis, and letting a rival network scoop his employer.
