... figures rel today,. Research conducted by the business information group Dun & Bradstreet revealed that 43,365 companies went bankrupt or were wound up during 1999, equal to around 830 every week. The %um represents the third largest annual increase of the ...

... higher rale than the national average. ' Research business-information group. Dun & Bradstreet revealed 43.365 companies went bankrupt or were wound up during IW9 B.M) every week. And D&B analysts warned more failures eould be on the way a millennium hug ...

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... But the case collapsed when Aitken was forced to admit he had lied about fus then wife paying a bill at the hotel. He was bankrupted by the legal costs. Peter Preston, who was editor of The Guardian when it first made the allegations which triggered Aitken’s ...

... FUTURE SHOCK A sideways look at bankrupt. Africa and most:of - Asia. Fortunately, both = . continents-are saved by massive injections of capital from the Disney Corporation, on the understanding that China will henceforth be known as *;: Goofyville. Meanwhile ...

... Aitken. But he will argue his pension should be treated as those of civil servants which have previously been exempted from bankrupts’ estates. MacGregor said he and fellow trustees had been advised to seek counsel’s opinion because of the complex issues ...

... only give a picture of 1997. But there would not be any repeat of the disastrous losses of the early 1990 s which nearly bankrupted the market and led to financial strife for hundreds of individual backers known as Names. New rules have tightened the practices ...

... THE bankrupt formergovernment :~_ minister,. :* Jonathan Aitken, will make.a fresh.offer on Friday,tofg'ay ‘off the: £2.4 million- debts he-ran, up’in his failed libel action; = ...

... apparent - particularly in re-insurance and motor.” . Lloyd's was hit by disastrous losses in the early 1990 s which nufl(v bankrupted the market and led to financial strife for hundreds of the wealthy individual backers, known as Names. New rules have ghtened ...

... Manchester, did not go ahead. Tyson'’s would-be opponent, the British champion, Julius Francis, said he would be declared bankrupt if the fight was cancelled after spending £50,000 preparing for the fight, in expectation of a £300,000 purse. Tyson, who ...

... register as a nursing home with 24-hour medical cover, but that would mean spending an extra £lOO,OOO on staff which could bankrupt us, he said. I would be happy to do it but there must be some assurance that they would use the service. But really it's ...

... says Billy, the Glasgow cabbie. “I played against him when I was with Cowdenbeath.” Jonathan Aitken? “Aye, I see he’s out. Bankrupt? He’ll be all right. He’ll have a wee stash somewhere, mark my words,” says my Edinburgh driver as we whisk along Castle ...