1.   And the only practical deterrent to malfeasance seems to be corporate failure, which all too often punishes shareholders far more than the boss.

2.   At the hearing, lawmakers condemned Enron executives for triggering the biggest corporate failure in history.

3.   Banks in many nations are shaky, and corporate failures are feeding a sense of gloom.

4.   Both could spell the difference between corporate failure and success.

5.   Bucking declines, banking shares got a boost from a planned government move aimed at preventing corporate failures.

6.   But beyond the corporate failures is the insidious appearance of a conflict of interest.

7.   Gains by LG Semicon Co. and other LG Group units countered declines by banks exposed to recent corporate failures.

8.   In the aftermath, mismanagement sometimes led to corporate failure that ultimately destroyed what was left of the already plundered pension plans.

9.   Indonesian stocks rose after a cut in money market rates reduced the risk of corporate failures.

10.   Korea First Bank and other banks accounted for about one-third of the index drop as traders bet mounting corporate failures will hammer their profits.