Word: bankrupts
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...diplomacy often comes back to haunt its perpetrators–for example, the consequences of America’s abetment of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s. However, to use such evidence as an argument against realpolitik is to miss the point. The argument cannot be that morally bankrupt diplomacy is ultimately unprofitable. It must simply be that it is wrong...
...cost Conoco $4.5billion in impairment charges. The French oil corporation Total signed a deal earlier this month to help fill the void. Still, Venezuela's output "is declining," says Rafael Quiroz, an oil economist at Venezuela's Central University. "If it dips below 2.1 m.b.d. ... it could bankrupt the industry...
...labels that were slow to export manufacturing overseas. Last year it acquired the license to sell Royal Velvet, a home-textiles brand that went bust in '03. "We wanted a company that knew how to source overseas," says Rick Platt, managing director of Official Pillowtex LLC, which bought the bankrupt firm...
...country's 1 million tea workers. Unpaid employees launched a wave of strikes, while some owners sold or simply abandoned their plantations. "Many tea plantations became totally unviable," says Shiv K. Saria of Soongachi Tea Industries, which owns five tea farms in northeastern India. Estates went bankrupt because they were selling at below-cost prices and banks wouldn't lend any more...
...sister worked in the store as a bookkeeper, and they did that all through the Depression until 1950 when they moved up to one of the three storefronts we have now on Mass. Ave.”As other Square book stores expanded, contracted, and eventually went bankrupt, Harvard Book Store’s used book selection, its prime location, and the flexibility that being a small, local bookstore allows kept it up and running. Kramer also credits Harvard and its students for the success of the Book Store.“The Harvard student body is an extremely important...