11.   Layoffs would be a sign of corporate failure.

12.   On Thursday, Bush instructed his economic team to develop a plan to protect retirement accounts from similar corporate failures.

13.   Similar questions have been asked following corporate failures such as Enron Corp. and Global Crossing.

14.   SOUTH KOREAN benchmark stock index took its biggest tumble in almost four months as concern about corporate failures drove interest rates to two- week highs.

15.   That gloomy verdict comes from lawmakers, former regulators and some investors after the bankruptcy filing of Enron, the largest corporate failure in American history.

16.   That gloomy verdict comes from investors and former regulators in the wake of the bankruptcy of Enron, the largest corporate failure in American history.

17.   That gloomy verdict comes from lawmakers, former regulators and some investors after the bankruptcy filing of Enron, the largest corporate failure in U.S. history.

18.   The bankers agreed to freeze its debts and provide more loans to stave off another large corporate failure this year.

19.   The concern over corporate failures comes as the economy grows at its slowest pace in four years and after a pair of high-profile bankruptcies earlier this year.

20.   The Democrats see the steady stream of corporate failures as symptoms of broad systemic problems.