Industry analyst Lynne Collier of Sterne Agee says landlords desperate to keep tenants in place have bent over backward to restructure leases.

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But Russian officials hardly bent over backward to protect anybody.

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Many said they bent over backward to meet the needs of passengers, performing well even during unpleasant jobs such as cleaning the raw waste that had sloshed out of toilets.

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When Hugh Martin, the chief executive of gene sequencing start-up Pacific Biosciences, discovered that he had multiple myeloma, he bent over backward to disclose the fact to his entire company in excruciating detail, and also to his investors, his business partners, and Fortune, which ran a story about the way he handled the decision.

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