These included Fausto Tonna, the long-time finance director who had quit in March 2003, shortly after the company surprised investors by pulling a bond issue at the last minute, and Gianpaolo Zini, Parmalat's legal counsel.
When it came time to finance World War I, President Wilson faced similar challenges.
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GDP, the government can borrow quite heavily for some time to finance investment without breaching the first rule.
Private firms, for instance, have a terrible time finding finance.
For example, it could be up to 17, 18 year period before the money comes back, and that's a very long period of time to finance, and that's a serious disadvantage of the graduate tax approach.
Another colleague, Rick Kahler, author and co-author of several books including one of my all-time personal finance favorites, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, insists every financial advisor needs his or her own financial advisor.
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From her first incarnation as head of statistics (she had read maths at the University of London) through her time as finance editor and then mastermind of the newsletter Financial Report, she showed grit, feistiness, a disarming sense of humour and an affection for bone-dry La Ina sherry.
Moreover, Congress never could have raided a system of private accounts to bankroll spending that it knew would never be supported by taxpayers if it had to raise taxes in real time to finance (as opposed to implicitly shoveling this burden onto future generations after present members of Congress are long retired etc.).
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Mr Fox left the company at the same time as former finance director David Wolffe.
There was a time when the finance ministry kept a firm grip on Italy's lotteries and betting.
At the time, the finance minister, Yashwant Sinha, ruled out a rescue, and the banks held out.
One plus point is a reform put in place during Mr Nogueira Leite's time at the finance ministry.
The probe relates to her time as French finance minister and her involvement in the payment of compensation to businessman Bernard Tapie.
The Tompkins dispute with Chevy Chase Trust comes at a time when the finance industry, under intense regulatory and competitive pressure, facing another round of consolidation.
The Greek government might be living on borrowed time, but European finance ministers have just borrowed a bit more.
There will not be time for meetings of finance ministers to discuss the outlook and debate the politics of incrementalism.
Stormont may get around to discussing the McArdle affair by the time officials in the finance department report back on the procedures regarding special advisers' appointment.
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The usual approach is to conduct reverse-repurchase agreements, borrowing from one of its 16 primary dealers for short periods of time in order to finance the assets on its balance-sheet.
At the time, DPTG helped finance the backbone of what would become the Polish telecommunications infrastructure, a system that links the Baltic coast to the south of Poland, known as the North-South Link.
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At that time, a Department of Finance and Personnel report said falling property prices made the scheme unviable.
And each time, euro-zone finance ministers and politicians took action only when the markets forced them to do so.
The 46-year-old one-time takeover king built up Finance One into Thailand's largest finance company through a series of acquisitions since 1980.
During that time, the three 20-something year old founders worked on the weekends to manually fill pouches, while still keeping full time jobs in order to finance the venture.
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And so there are millions of young people who are getting more Pell grants or qualify for the first time and are able to finance college. (Applause.) That happened because of you.
The Department for Education denied there were delays to the programme, but said it was essential to take the time to find the right finance arrangement for each school, and confirmed it was now looking at a number of options including a bond finance solution.
As we built a multi-functional shared services capability with IT, HR, and Finance, over time we continued to look for other services such as facilities, purchasing, sales order management, meetings, card services, and fleet management to bring under the umbrella to deliver bottom line saving to the corporation.
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It said Mr Sarkozy, as finance minister at the time, opposed the submarines deal.
Mr Martin was the country's finance minister at the time of the sponsorship programme.
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And then more time would be spent by your finance department re-keying this data into their company system.
This was confirmed by government finance officials at the time it was announced.
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