Lehman and Bear Stearns leveraged themselves to the hilt, probably 40 to 1 on equity capital.
Carriers also note that customers themselves bear responsibility for keeping up with their accounts.
If others find themselves in Bear's awful predicament, there will be little the Fed can do to forestall a rout.
The case for expecting the international shippers themselves to bear the risks of piracy rests not only on judgments about whether they have a right to expect taxpayer help.
They are not protecting themselves against a prolonged bear market in shares and bonds.
Although they were still unable to balance properly, they were able to bear more of their own weight themselves.
Those catching a glimpse of the native brown bear or grey wolf may find themselves wishing for a return of the current.
Could he not bear the thought that his business practices themselves might be socially beneficial?
And although customers currently bear the expense of going to stores themselves, they are reluctant to pay for their shopping to be brought to them instead.
This is how with more than 90% of mortgages still paying on time, major companies like Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, AIG, and Lehman Brothers, found themselves suddenly bankrupt almost overnight.
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But bulls can draw comfort from the fact that, of Britain's 25 bear markets in the past century, 21 have corrected themselves after a loss of some 35% - roughly where we are in July 2002.
Amazingly, a large number seem ready to put the blame on themselves, and, as if to show that they bear the retail trade no hard feelings, they wander off peacefully down the road to do their shopping at a nearby Tesco instead.
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Bear in mind that even profitable companies can have negative cash flows and find themselves in trouble.
Perpignan's Stade Aime Giral is a real bear pit down by the Mediterranean in French Catalonia and despite taking an early lead Leicester soon found themselves up against it.
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