But can Chinese companies take over ailing American and European businesses and turn them around?
Sandberg's announcement reminds us, too, of how little we're asking for when we ask for flexibility -- things like getting home to have dinner with our families or take an ailing parent to the doctor.
Back in 1976, the government asked him to take over an ailing heavy-machinery maker nobody wanted.
In 1970 Congress created Amtrak to take over the ailing rail passenger service.
With difficulty, he pulled together a consortium of Italian entrepreneurs to take over the ailing flag-carrier and gave it a monopoly on the most profitable route, between Rome and Milan.
Those firms with good balance sheets will be able to grow and take market share from those with ailing balance sheets.
Thus American regulators were happy for Boeing, a giant manufacturer of civil aircraft, to take over McDonnell Douglas, an ailing smaller firm.
There are even some Americans who would say, if the Chinese wanted all the shares of the ailing carmaker, they could take them.
Now the 68-year old Terracciano will have to take over where Lord left off, and attempt to revive the ailing company, which has lost 62% of its stock-market value over the past year.
The bank as a whole would be turning a handsome profit were it not weighed down by an ailing investment bank and by nonsensical accounting rules that force banks to take losses on their own debt when their credit ratings improve.
The studies can take a toll on the families, who often must travel great distances with the ailing young patients to undergo arduous medical procedures.
Today, Take-Two is getting hit hard by analysts, who are reducing their price targets on the ailing stock.
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