But this week, its founder announced that it would be able to stay on a bit longer, after agreeing to a new month-to-month lease.
Once the turtle could raise its head — signaling that it would be able to breathe when placed in water —it went into a shallow tank and was monitored.
Second, the scale should be sufficiently varied, both in terms of the type of behavior, and in terms of its severity, so that it would be able to detect different types and levels of deviant engagement.
BP said it was hopeful that it would be able to resurrect its plan to explore the Arctic.
The Obama Administration once hoped that it would be able to cite its exit from Iraq as a measure of its success, but those hopes have evaporated.
Mr. Brown said late last month that Motorola planned to split off its mobile phone unit, hoping that it would be able to better attract a chief executive if it was run as a separate company.
The company said yesterday that it expected to report a third-quarter profit of at least 44 cents a share and that it would be able to meet its debt payments through November.
Taking into account its heavy load, Ekholm estimated that it would be able to stay airborne for 17 days at most, not 30.
XM, which began offering its satellite-based service last fall, said it remained confident that it would be able to raise capital as necessary to support its expansion.
Meanwhile, the Spain is trying to reassure investors that it would be able to rescue any of its 17 regional governments if their finances deteriorate further.
During both of these earlier thwarted efforts, Mr. Masten said, the institute received assurances from both the state and the township that it would be able to build faculty housing on its remaining property.
