31.   The government is again discussing plans to sell the ailing company, with the private Israeli charter airline Arkia signaling interest as a potential buyer.

32.   The Hilton Head, South Carolina consulting firm uses financial benchmarks to cut costs and revive ailing companies.

33.   The loan is first in the line of creditors waiting to be repaid by the ailing company.

34.   While Falcon is profitable, Investcorp is known for investing in ailing companies, improving them and selling them at a profit.

35.   Prima ballerina Nadezhda Pavlova has resigned from the Bolshoi Theater, the latest defection from the ailing company, a Russian television program reported Tuesday.

36.   Another accountant said the only creditors which can extend the repayment time frame for ailing companies are financial institutions.

37.   Asked if the Government planned to help ailing companies, he said if the Government did so, it would be seen as a bail-out.

38.   BFIT chairman and managing director Choedchu Sophonpanich said its new policy is to focus on investments in ailing companies in Thailand.

39.   Boonklee said the government should rush out a rescue package with the purpose of helping ailing companies negotiate with foreign creditors on rolling over their foreign debts.

40.   But the investors have refused to cough up more to support the ailing ancillary companies.