1.   Businesses folded and they all but disappeared.

2.   But his business folded, and his wife went back to Japan.

3.   In embattled Lower Manhattan, major corporations have fled, businesses have folded, and now, even lunch is under siege.

4.   The business folded, and about that time she started remodeling her apartment and wheeling and dealing for the co-op presidency.

5.   The publication fell on hard times as many dot-com businesses folded.

6.   When that business folded, he started looking for another job.

7.   Dass said that increasing interest rates will possibly create social problems since it will cause businesses to fold, increase unemployment and make more people unhappy and poor.

8.   He told iBelieve.com staffers on Thursday that the business would fold.

9.   Koizumi has been asking his nation to bear pain while allowing unprofitable businesses to fold.