For years, engineers thought that Lake Mead would be "dead" when the waterline slumped to 320 metres above sea level.
Or if it has not (the clinching evidence would have to be a human HIV-1 sample from before 1957), it is holed below the waterline and is going down fast.
But there is a nagging fear that something terminal has changed below the waterline.
Many raise the height of the freeboard (between the waterline and the deck) to make it harder for pirates to haul themselves up the side.
More than 100 failing schools have been closed altogether.In this section The fixit business Gordon's giveaway Juggling the cash The world without Woodhead Holed beneath the waterline?
But cheap Asian competition for this type of vessel has holed it below the waterline.
The employment tribunal found that the fact that Lord Irvine had more male than female friends meant that he had discriminated against women in general, and in particular against the claimant, Jane Coker, a solicitor in a legal aid firm.In this section The fixit business Gordon's giveaway Juggling the cash The world without Woodhead Holed beneath the waterline?
So Mr Trimble's deputy first minister, Seamus Mallon, and the Irish health minister turned up to a downgraded meeting with the Sinn Fein health minister, Bairbre de Brun, on November 3rd.In this section The fixit business Gordon's giveaway Juggling the cash The world without Woodhead Holed beneath the waterline?
But there are two glaring holes above the waterline that will probably never get patched.Tony Blair has surrendered the debate over Europe to the Tories, and thereby ensured that he will preside over their programme.
At some point, the entire reactor inside the pressure vessel was above the waterline: the kettle had boiled dry.
On the night of Mrs Clinton's defeat in Iowa, in retrospect the moment when her campaign was holed below the waterline, the account of her impotent fury is, to put it mildly, unsettling.
