11.  Global Crossing hired Blackstone, a prominent New York investment firm that specializes in restructuring ailing companies, as an adviser last November.

12.  He returned last year after promising to drop his management role in the ailing online company.

13.  In his previous job at Genesco Co., a Tennessee-based footwear maker and retailer, Chamberlain was credited with restoring an ailing company to profitability.

14.  Investors are concerned that banks may step up efforts to put other ailing companies out of their misery, traders said.

15.  Japanese stocks fell, led by banks and contractors, after a newspaper said Sakura Bank Ltd. decided not to prop up an ailing leasing company.

16.  Japanese stocks fell after the collapse of a major restaurant chain raised concern about the ability of banks to extend credit to other ailing companies.

17.  Japanese stocks fell after the collapse of a major restaurant chain raised concern that banks may stop making easy credit available to other ailing companies.

18.  Lake Forest, Illinois-based Mercury replaced Brincat with William Brandt Jr., whose firm, Development Specialists Inc., works to bring ailing companies back to health.

19.  Many ailing Japanese companies face the same risk as they strike alliances and partnerships with overseas firms primarily seeking a ready-made list of clients.

20.  Mercury Finance replaced Brincat with William Brandt Jr., whose firm, Development Specialists Inc., works to bring ailing companies back to health.