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...according to a recent Tillinghast-Towers Perrin study, its financial toll could reach $200 billion, more than the damage attributed to the Enron debacle. "The liability--both projected and actual--is far in excess of Enron," says David Austern, general counsel for the Manville Trust, which was created from bankrupt asbestos maker Johns-Manville in 1988 to administer claims against the company. "Yet there seems to be very little congressional interest in this subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Litigation: The Asbestos Pit | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...still seeing cases where the exposure took place in World War II," says Kazan. "How will cancer victims 40 years from now be compensated?" Adding to the problem: thousands of healthy plaintiffs, worried they may be left out, file claims to protect themselves lest a firm go bankrupt before they show any symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Litigation: The Asbestos Pit | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...easy as it once seemed. Democrats have put up TV ads blasting her for a Ken Lay-hosted fund raiser just nine days after Sept. 11. (Her campaign has since donated $5,000 received from Enron's ex-CEO and his relatives to a fund for employees of the bankrupt energy giant.) Some scoffed at Dole's declaring her mother's Salisbury home as her residence, when she's a fixture at the Watergate in Washington, where she and Bob have an apartment. And though her campaign had $2.5 million on hand in January, it also had an eyebrow-raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2002: Another Dole, Another Race | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...We’re not bankrupt, but we’re not well-off,” Kedem said...

Author: By Vanessa G. Henke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Debate Tourney Highlights Inequality | 2/19/2002 | See Source »

...Australia's troubled Ansett airline in 1997. Eddington's cost cutting brought Ansett into the black and reduced its debt by two-thirds, but he couldn't finish the job. He left in 2000 after Air New Zealand bought full control of the airline; Ansett has since gone bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Haul to Profits | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

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