So far as a stock, Google is a big bust, up just 4 percent this year.
Like Mr. Capobianco, Mr. Smithson managed to get out of most of his stocks before the big bust.
Generating billions of dollars for her makers Mattel, Barbie, with her long legs, tiny waist and big bust has also generated much controversy.
And when the banks pull back on their lending, as they did following the big bust, there will eventually be fewer loans on which to default.
Mr Knapp seems likely either to succeed very big, or go bust very big.
Evraz itself has just bought a manganese mine in Georgia, and is bidding for the Czech Republic's big, bust Vitkovice steelworks.
But when several big firms went bust in 1997, interest rates paid by such borrowers shot up.
Safety issues may limit the market of new cholesterol drug Zetia even as other big drugs go bust.
Tackling the problem effectively could mean some big companies go bust.
The liquidity line thrown to investment banks by the Federal Reserve has given bullish investors the hope that the authorities will do what it takes to prevent any big bank going bust.
By any recent historical standards America's banking bust is big (see article).
And the exercise is even harder in Japan where, until recently, the government tried mightily to stop any big companies from going bust.
In mid-1995, the then finance minister, Masayoshi Takemura, said, after the closure of Hyogo Bank, that no other big banks would go bust.
Big operators have gone bust, such as American Ski Co. (liquidated this year), ex-owner of the celebrated Killington (Vermont) and Steamboat (Colorado) ski areas.
So far no big company has gone bust.
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Since the finance ministry had long decreed that no big bank would go bust until May 2000 and had pretended that many were solvent, it is a safe bet that the men from the ministry connived with the dodgy banks that were trying to disguise their losses.
But Nintendo is going to need to bust out the big guns in order to stay relevant, and I have to believe a Pokemon console game would be part of that.
It set up Merrill Lynch Japan Securities, which hired 2, 000 people from Yamaichi, one of Japan's four big brokers until it went bust in November 1997, and took out new leases on many old Yamaichi offices.
Since the big companies brought in thugs to bust militant trade unions in the 1950s, Japanese labour has been noted for its timidity.
News Corp nearly went bust and the other big media companies were long out of favour with investors because of their heavy spending and their debt.
Banks had made practically no provisions against loans to Mycal, a big supermarket chain, before it went bust last month.
This kind of monetary largesse says to us that an economic bust, and a pretty big one is in the offing.
If all other safeguards have come to naught, can big financial institutions be allowed to go bust (or be saved without asking taxpayers to stump up)?
The global steel industry carried on in its own sweet way, steel got more expensive for US consumers and the big integrated US producers carried on going bust.
Citi, like BofA, is a late-recovery play because it missed out on the rallies that helped bring other big banks share prices close to pre-bust levels.
Chlorine is a big component of PVC plastic, so the housing bust has cut demand a bit.
At least with big outfits, which likely won't go bust, you stand a better chance of getting something back should your investment crater because of dishonest advice.
There are, of course, big public policy ramifications to this legal fight, especially given the extent to which the federal government has gone to rescue big banks like Bank of America from the mortgage bust.
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Just how many borrowers will be affected is unclear, but a handful of big construction companies, among others, are expected to go bust.
ING, the Dutch bank-and-insurance group which in 1995 snapped up Barings, an investment bank with a big asset-management arm, after the British firm went bust.
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