1.   A conglomeration of barely related store chains that included everything from dusty dime stores to outdated Kinney Shoe Stores, the company was debt laden and bleeding cash.

2.   But unlike Microsoft, many of the local technology companies cutting staff are bleeding cash as they struggle to turn a profit.

3.   Its namesake dime stores were bleeding cash, as were many of its other divisions.

4.   The revelation came to Roderick B. Mitchell nine Christmases ago, when his supermarket company in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn was bleeding cash.

5.   Unlike airlines elsewhere, which are cleaning up on the best boom the industry has seen in years, the French carriers are bleeding cash.