Word: bankrupting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talked about how students were frustrated with the phone company, and [Kinchla] talked about how the phone company was going bankrupt anyway because of billing problems and people not paying bills, and we started brainstorming about what we wanted to do,” Simon said...
...concerns me that if they put anything about other groups they’d be bankrupt in a minute,” said Tam. “They’re taking advantage of the fact that Asian-Americans might not be as organized or militant as other minority groups in America...
...Wang and his colleagues made friends with the employees of the nearby Zhengzhou Ceramics Plant, which produced dinner plates for export to the U.S. Workers there say they received no severance pay after the plant went bankrupt and merged with a private company, so they took over the factory two years ago. Police tried to force them out; workers from Wang's factory joined in to keep the siege going. Recently, both factories were shut down. Shi Jian, the ceramics factory workers' leader, went into hiding after receiving threats to his life. In February 1999, he returned home to visit...
...time of "Sweet Smell," the boites that gave a home to the columnists were heading for twilight - or, since they were nightclubs, their final dawn. The Stork Club went bankrupt and then kaput in the 60s. A later disco spurt would revive the turbid El Morocco; it's still there, but unrecognizable. The "21" Club somehow survived as a rich man's steak house until Anne Rosenzweig took over in the 80s and began serving edible food. Toots Shor declined when night games kept reporters from having dinner there with the ballplayers they covered. There were fewer ballplayers...
...Plenty of problems remain, including bust or near-bankrupt corporate giants such as Daewoo Motor and Hynix Semiconductor. But thanks to restructuring efforts forced by the crisis, the economy is proving to be surprisingly resilient, mature and self-assured?especially so considering that the international investment community classifies Korea as a developing country. Consumer confidence is booming, and a survey of 600 companies last week showed business confidence is at a record high. Stocks seem to be weightless?the benchmark Kospi stock index has soared 75% since Sept...