When a business has trouble paying its bills, the optimistic view is that it is having a cash flow problem.
But after 7 months in business, trouble was brewing beneath the surface.
The fact is, these same issues trouble business leaders around the globe.
With per-capita U.S. milk consumption down 36% between 1970 and 2011, an industry trade group spokesman recently admitted something everybody already knew: The dairy business is in trouble.
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Violence is far more likely to get a dealer into legal trouble than business.
With its bank accounts frozen and oil-shipment fees due soon, it could have trouble doing business.
Business.com had trouble even before its launch in June, beginning with the search engine at the heart of the site.
Is anyone really surprised that the business of journalism is in trouble?
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The prospect of downgrades have also wracked the companies' stocks because a bond insurer without the highest-quality rating would have trouble winning new business.
Like inventories, these numbers might mean one of two things: it is either having trouble paying its business partners, or it has increased production capacity, naturally increasing short-term liabilities.
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If that anger persists, it could turn into trouble for the futures business.
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Some industry reps are now publicly admitting that the milk business is in a lot of trouble.
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They make regular deliveries to remote islands and secluded areas that would not be worth the trouble for a private business.
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Our business news starts with even more trouble for home mortgage lenders.
Air France-KLM, the Franco-Dutch airline, says it made a big loss in 2012, blaming sharply rising fuel costs and trouble with its cargo business.
Unlike any of the other big Pentagon contractors, it came to view military business as a buffer against potential trouble in its commercial markets.
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There must be doubt about the willingness of some local agencies to pull the rug from under one of India's big banks or business houses if it got into trouble.
This business appears to be in major trouble.
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At a minimum this conception requires that individuals have some clear conception of what public authorities expect of them, so that they can organize their everyday conduct and business affairs to steer clear of trouble.
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Admittedly, America's AIG got into serious trouble after expanding into the business of insuring mortgage bonds, but Swiss Re was the only other company to dabble in this dangerous niche.
Precisely one year after his return as chief executive of MBIA, JayBrownJay Brown formalized his plan to separate the insurer's municipal bond business from the structured finance business that has given it so much trouble.
But, in a classic biotechnology story, DeCode had trouble turning its science into a business.
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This is why karaoke should be mandatory for all business students (and anybody else who has trouble in front of crowds).
Telecoms firms are in trouble because their fixed-line business is shrinking, and because their cable rivals are beating them in entertainment while getting stronger in telephony.
For example, surgeons and dermatologists seem to be doing just fine while cardiologists and oncologists, whose business models necessarily make them more susceptible to trouble, are feeling the pain.
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The trouble is, small companies often do business with other small fries who jealously guard their financials.
It takes time and trouble merely to discover what permits a business needs.
People have a lot of trouble meeting the real estate trade or business exception to the rule that makes real estate rental per se passive.
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The first signs of trouble could be from weakening consumer and business confidence, tied more to sentiment about Washington's paralysis than an immediate economic hit.
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