Sentences with phrase «nearly went bankrupt»

Every once in a while it backfires that is why Orange county nearly went bankrupt some years back and Barkleys Bank did go bankrupt due to a rouge trader.

In the six years it took to finish the game, Game Freak nearly went bankrupt on multiple occasions.

In fact, back in the 1970's and 1980's, several defense contractors nearly went bankrupt due to such issues.

As a result of Ark restaurants» reliance on tourist locations and an overleveraged balance sheet, the company nearly went bankrupt.

Car sales went the opposite direction in a hurry and Chrysler Corp. nearly went bankrupt, wiping out thousands of jobs in the process.

Oil and gas revenues counted for as much as 41 percent of the state's budget in 1981, and when the industry faltered the state nearly went bankrupt.

«The last time the state imposed rates this high was in the 1970's — a decade in which the city lost half its Fortune 500 companies, about a million residents, and nearly went bankrupt.

Elon Musk suffered the Dark Night when Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008.

For example, she mentions Elon Musk's period of despair when Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008, and what Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick describes as the «blood, sweat, and ramen» years.

Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008, but was saved by a last - minute funding round on Christmas Eve.

In the late»90s, for instance, Cott was almost manic in its efforts to diversify and nearly went bankrupt.

Or look at Lego, which nearly went bankrupt trying to build high - tech toys; it refocused on its basic blocks and is now the world's largest toy maker by revenue.

But Scott made some poor decision due to be young and wanting to appear older that caused him to nearly go bankrupt.

Memories of nearly going bankrupt scared the $ 840 bln firm into keeping an absurdly conservative balance sheet for two decades.

Obama's reign began with him having to deal with one costly disaster after another, SARS, the Gulf Oil Spill, Mortgage collapse, banks and huge car companies nearly going bankrupt and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In his opening remarks, Sinensky — who runs Hudson Terrace, two Village Pourhouse establishments, SideBar and Vintage Irving — said he's nearly gone bankrupt trying to keep his businesses afloat.

BMW had nearly gone bankrupt when industrialist Herbert Quandt invested in the company in late 1959 and helped bring the successful Neue Klasse, or New Class, to life.

Not exact matches

Booked to play London by impresario John Watson (Christian McKay) who goes nearly bankrupt in the process, Paganini finds himself met by a group of angry women protestors led by Primrose Blackstone (Olivia d'Abo) who object to his wanton ways.

A fair chunk of Documenta's 37 million euro budget (about $ 40 million) has gone into nearly bankrupt Greek art organizations, which you can think of as an artsy stand - in for the eurozone transfer payments that Germany continues to resist.

We rely on it so heavily that in 2009 the U.S. Treasury Department invested nearly $ 50 billion in General Motors Co. after it went bankrupt in a financial crisis that led to a recession.