He and his wife, Beverly, frequently visited ailing service members at hospitals in the Washington area.
Managers have already been paid performance-related bonuses, though none were paid in BT's ailing global services unit.
The drumbeats grow louder for an ailing financial services industry.
Known as a voluble entrepreneur given to pursuing his vision despite naysayers' criticisms, Mr. Son believes that by buying Sprint, he can help the ailing cellphone service provider trump the duopoly of Verizon and AT&T that has long dominated the American market.
FORBES Postal Union Seeks Wall Street Advice | The letter carriers' union has hired Ron Bloom, a former investment banker, and Lazard, the financial firm, to help draft a plan to breathe some life into the ailing postal service, The New York Times reports.
The study, intended to measure satisfaction with Ireland's ailing health service, found that 95percentt of those surveyed favored increased government spending to shorten hospital waiting lists.
Mr. Case's role in this affair will be debated for years, but for now Richard Parsons and the other old-media executives who are back in charge of AOL Time Warner face the difficult job of managing their crazy-quilt company and devising a workable business strategy for their ailing Internet service.
On September 8th, WorldCom agreed to pay $1.2 billion in stock for CompuServe (CSRV), the ailing online service owned by H&R Block.
Renaming it White Mountains Insurance Group, and relocating the company to Bermuda for tax purposes, he sold off the ailing mortgage servicing business.
Competitors such as Juno jweb, which recently acquired 700,000 subscribers from ailing Internet service provider Freewwweb NetZero nzro ; Winfire; and Freei.net are going a step further, offering ad-driven, free-to-the-subscriber Internet access service.
