101.  They were paying him for treading water.

102.  Try as it might, the city could not do much more than tread water, keeping as many apartments marginally inhabitable as possible.

103.  Unable to decide where to go or what tone to adopt, it ends up treading water.

104.  When the broad stock market is treading water, a gifted stock picker rises to the occasion.

105.  Analyst Margaret Mager said Nike stock is likely to tread water until improving retail trends translate into more robust orders.

106.  Analysts expect the market largely to tread water as the Federal Reserve meets today on interest rates.

107.  But critics say his government has merely treaded water and has not developed a coherent program to reverse the economic decline.

108.  But until they return, Russia will be short of money, and the economy likely will tread water at best.

109.  He said some of the starving hogs had to tread water for days before they were saved.

110.  Market analysts say stocks may tread water for a while given how far they have come in recent months.