However, in recent years, the agency has been bleeding cash as correspondence shifted to the Internet, forcing the Postal Service to borrow billions from the Treasury.

WSJ: Budget Backs Dropping Saturday Mail Service

Sony has been bleeding money for years now.

FORBES: Panasonic Steps Up Its Solutions Game

Since liberalisation on January 1st, Deutsche Telekom has indeed been bleeding revenues and customers.

ECONOMIST: Germany calling back

The record since then has been one of stopping the bleeding, arresting the freefall of our economy, preventing the second Great Depression in American history, and putting us back on a course towards economic growth and job creation.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Official conversations about medication in racing are a fairly common occurrence these days, many of them centering on the raceday use of furosemide, also known as Lasix or Salix, a diuretic that has been proven to reduce pulmonary bleeding in racehorses, bleeding that is often the result of strenuous exercise.

FORBES: Does Horse Racing Have A Better Drug Policy Than The Olympics?

None of the journalists in the huge pack in Perugia over the years made any but the most casual efforts to uncover the life story and habits of small-time break-in artist Rudy Guede, whose fingerprints were in the murder room, who never denied being there as Kercher was bleeding to death, and who has been convicted of murdering her in a separate trial.

CNN: Amanda Knox: Fascination with 'the evil female'

General Motors and Chrysler are both bleeding cash, and a merger between the two has been talked about for the last several weeks.

NPR: GM, Chrysler Merger Talks Resurface