Word: adelphia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sink in. a market crash doesn't always come in a day. It can sneak up, slow and surreal, and you can think you survived it only to find it has barely begun. Now each week brings a new shudder and crack--first Enron and Arthur Anderson, then WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox and the trials of Martha Stewart. Most Americans--72% in the TIME/CNN POLL--fear that they see not a few isolated cases but a pattern of deception by a large number of companies. In one survey, more than half of corporate chief financial officers said they had been pressured...
...advertising recession, high debt loads and, in AOL Time Warner's case (down 55% this year), slowing Internet subscriber growth. AOL Time Warner shares have also been hit by investor aversion to companies with complex accounting stories, in the wake of bookkeeping scandals at WorldCom, Qwest and Adelphia Communications...
...sink in. a market crash doesn't always come in a day. It can sneak up, slow and surreal, and you can think you survived it only to find it has barely begun. Now each week brings a new shudder and crack-first Enron and Arthur Anderson, then WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox and the trials of Martha Stewart. Most Americans-72% in the TIME/CNN poll-fear that they see not a few isolated cases but a pattern of deception by a large number of companies. In one survey, more than half of corporate chief financial officers said they had been pressured...
...DEBTORS Companies that binge on borrowed money, like WorldCom and Adelphia, end up with no margin for error. Robert Olstein, manager of the Olstein Financial Alert Fund, avoids firms whose debt is greater than half of total capital or more than five times their free cash flow. (Get these ratios at morningstar.com Enter the company name under "Quicktake Reports"; scroll to "Financials...
...STOP COMPANIES FROM MAKING LOANS TO EXECUTIVES A company is not a private bank. Kozlowski appears to have borrowed millions of dollars. WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers borrowed hundreds of millions. The Rigases, controlling family members at cable giant Adelphia, borrowed billions. In each case, shareholders have been left holding the bag. So let's change the rules. Executives get paid well; let them go to the bank and put their home in hock like the rest of us. And end the practice by which executives at Enron and Tyco have sold stock back to the company, rather than...