Word: bankrupting
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...After a year at Boston's Emerson College and another three with the Fifteenth Air Force near Foggia, Italy (since enshrined as Archie's old unit), Lear was laid off his first job with a Manhattan publicity firm. Then he went bankrupt with his own novelty ashtray business. He took his wife and infant daughter to Los Angeles, where half of his luck improved. He at least survived as a door-to-door salesman of furniture and baby pictures...
...town officials are trying to leverage us with a terror campaign,” Grogan says. “They’re using this mythological idea that we’ll bankrupt them to frighten innocent citizens. It’s disgraceful...
...prospects of a government program to control the flood of mercury in Talawaan are almost zero. World Bank estimates put the cleanup costs at around $1 billion, a laughable figure in near-bankrupt Indonesia. And that assumes environment officials could get into the site. Victor Malonda, who heads the district mining office, recounts how he took 120 policemen and soldiers to the site a year ago to try to halt the mining. "We were chased away," he says despairingly. "They had samurai swords. We had to run for our lives...
Director of communications Stephanie Cohen Glass said Kozmo has not gone bankrupt, but it has begun the process of liquidating its assets in order to pay creditors...
...adding more money would have just been stealing from today’s elderly to pay tomorrow’s. Barring extraordinary intervention from Congress (read: raising taxes, cutting benefits or borrowing from other budgets), the most detailed available version of the plan would have sent the trust fund bankrupt for nearly two decades...