Sentences with phrase «companies run themselves into the ground»

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Because for the past few years, many gold companies have nearly run their businesses — and their investors» equity — into the ground, despite an incredible rise in gold prices.

(Presumably, this future does not include the risk of serving expired meat — which the company's China subsidiary ran into earlier this year when one of its suppliers was caught repackaging old ground beef.)

So, in theory, the consumer could punish PE companies by never buying from the companies they are running into the ground.

They've seen what has happened in Pennsylvania where the gas companies have run wild and they fear that once the drillers get their bits into the ground in New York, it's a mad rush to ruin.

He's still an alcoholic and a drug addict, but now he gets to flaunt his detrimental behavior by running his company into the ground and prominently displaying a portrait of him having sex with a tiger for all to see as they enter his mansion.

You even have a disgraced captain of industry like former CEO Stan O'Neal managing to retire from Merrill Lynch with a golden parachute of $ 161 million after having practically run the Fortune 500 Company into the ground.

And the profligate heir has already started to run the company into the ground by firing loyal employees and frittering away profits on prostitutes and cocaine.

Chemical plant accountant Kurt (Jason Sudeikis, «Saturday Night Live») can't stand to see the company of his fatherly longtime boss (a briefly - seen Donald Sutherland) run into the ground by the chief's real son, sadistic cocaine - addled Bobby Pellit (a combed - over Colin Farrell).

Usually they are the guys paid to run a company into the ground by making bad decisions.

All the while the people that made that company successful are sitting in a park and lost their homes and any income while these idiots who ran the company into the ground to make themselves MORE wealthy are sitting there telling everyone that the occupy people are just bums who are too lazy to look for a job and just want to protest.

Of course, management may simply continue its shareholder unfriendly ways and run the company into the ground.

But our legal and financial system doesn't afford any of these groups the same protections as the bondholders who hold billions in Arch debt or the Arch executives who expect significant bonuses for running a company into the ground.

The German toy / model company Conrad ran a TV advert featuring an amazing Rube Goldberg bike lock that used motorized skateboard wheels to raise your bike several meters off the ground and up a lamp - post; here's a making - of video showing the R&D that went into this fantastic gadget.

There's a difference between «we're going to run the company into the ground in 1 / 2 / 5 / 10 years» and «we're going to keep running the company into the ground, even after it's completely and totally buried into the dirt!»

And while Kelly Erb at Tax Girl is ultimately willing to resign herself to the necessary evil of the bailout to prevent broader damage, she's demanding accountability from the management teams that ran these companies into the ground.