When that happens, the United States and Southern Europe will be in the same boat.

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If an older workforce simply meant increased costs, then managers could take comfort from the fact that most of their competitors would be in the same boat.

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After the tornado, both families appear to be in the same leaky boat homeless, jobless because the local economy has been ruined, and in need of cash to secure shelter and pay living expenses.

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In 1998, while fishing the Yellowstone River, he got an idea: There must be scads of small-town printers like me, in the same boat, as it were--big debt payments on the printing press and not enough work to pay it off.

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Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruise is in the same boat as Carnival, trading in what appears to be severely overbought regions.

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