21.   In a corporate bankruptcy, a judge or outside trustee can demand that the company owners meet their debt obligations even at some sacrifice to their equity interests.

22.   In this deflationary period, the number of corporate bankruptcies is likely to increase, resulting in more unemployment if Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi moves ahead with structural reforms.

23.   It raised the specter of thousands of corporate bankruptcies, sending Asian stocks and currencies into a tailspin.

24.   It raised the specter of thousands of corporate bankruptcies, sending Asian stock and currencies into a tailspin.

25.   Japanese corporate bankruptcies have risen for eight straight months.

26.   Korean bonds got hammered as rising corporate bankruptcies and a worsening cash crunch drove interest rates higher.

27.   Korea stocks extended their decline as government efforts to boost the stock market failed to offset concerns about the mounting tide of corporate bankruptcies.

28.   Orange County may look like a corporate bankruptcy, but there are some unusual twists.

29.   Rising corporate bankruptcies, higher interest rates, tumbling currencies and plunging stock markets in Asia wrecked many securities firms there.

30.   Some lawmakers are weighing whether to revise provisions that could appear anti-consumer and politically unseemly in the wake of a corporate bankruptcy that hurt thousands of workers and investors.