21.   All these hurdles make home-based business failures more common than successes.

22.   Business failures in Oakland have more to do with the recession than with location, they say.

23.   Consumer sentiment also weakened after several major business failures in November, forcing retailers to cut inventories in anticipation of further sluggish sales.

24.   Few connoisseurs of congressional hearings or business failures expect that kind of performance from Lay.

25.   Faced with yet another business failure, Eisenstadt had the brainstorm that changed the way Americans dispense sugar.

26.   Following the business failures, Korean financial institutions, which are heavily exposed to the failed companies, face difficulties in raising money overseas.

27.   Gambon is Raymond, son of the family black sheep and himself a business failure.

28.   Harvard Business School professors and VC gurus Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner agree that some venture funds are suffering as a result of recent business failures.

29.   He cites several historical examples of business failures that prompted similar cries for intervention, but caused barely a ripple when allowed to run their course.

30.   He said employment and labor force figures were up, as was consumer spending, while the number of business failures had declined.