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  • 31Parmalat — Infobox Company company name = Parmalat S.p.A. company company type = Public (ISE|IT0003826473|PLT) company slogan = foundation = 1961 (Collecchio, Italy) location = Italy key people = Calisto Tanzi, Founder Fausto Tonna, former CFO Enrico Bondi …

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  • 32Jim Bede — James R. Jim Bede is an aircraft designer, who is often credited with the creation of the modern kitplane market. He has designed well over a dozen aircraft since the 1960s, but a string of business failures have kept most of these designs out of …

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  • 332008 Icelandic financial crisis — The 2008 Icelandic financial crisis involves all three of the major banks in Iceland and their control has been seized by the government. In late September, it was announced that Glitnir would be nationalised. The following week, the control of… …

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  • 34Churchill Machine Tool Company — The Churchill Machine Tool Company Limited Type Machine Tool Manufacturer Industry Engineering Fate Taken over, liquidated …

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  • 35Mary Seacole — Mary Jane Seacole A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003 by historian Helen Rappaport, and acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in… …

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  • 36Bankruptcy in the United Kingdom — There is no single law on bankruptcy in the United Kingdom with there being one system for England and Wales, one for Northern Ireland and one for Scotland.In the United Kingdom, bankruptcy refers only to insolvency of individuals and… …

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  • 37failure — /fayl yeuhr/, n. 1. an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure. 2. nonperformance of something due, required, or expected: a failure to do what one has promised; …

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  • 38Charles James Fleming — QC (26 November 1839 – 25 December 1904)[1] was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1895, but his parliamentary career was cut short when he fell out with the Liberal Party in his… …

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  • 39failure — fail•ure [[t]ˈfeɪl yər[/t]] n. 1) an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success 2) nonperformance of something due, required, or expected: a failure to appear[/ex] 3) a subnormal quantity or quality; an insufficiency: the …

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  • 40failure — /ˈfeɪljə / (say faylyuh) noun 1. an act of failing; a proving unsuccessful; lack of success: his effort ended in failure; the campaign was a failure. 2. non performance of something due or required: a failure to do what one has promised; a… …