11.   Consumer advocates sharply criticized the use of state funds as a bailout of failing companies.

12.   He not only rescued the firm but pushed it to growth at a time when other failing companies were disappearing.

13.   He recited a list of failing online companies and criticized their profligate ways.

14.   Hundreds of the thrifts that had bought failing companies were left in the lurch.

15.   How many times have smitten theatergoers wished they could whip out a checkbook and bail out a struggling show or a failing theatrical company?

16.   In the past, Seoul often forced banks to prop up failing companies.

17.   Korea could not forever throw borrowed dollars into failing companies.

18.   Still, Cavanaugh admits that, but for his insistence on not mocking failing Internet companies, Suck might still be around.

19.   These banks already had to cope with large nonpaying loans to failing state companies.

20.   This year, the cash-short government has fallen into arrears on its foreign debt payments and is expected to take over three failing insurance companies.