The parent company went Chapter 11, and here I am in a divorce that Jerry Springer would get squeamish over.
"The normal, psychological simplification tendency is to say, 'Well, this is a company that went Chapter 11; therefore, they're all incompetent.' It just took a few months to work through that".
The company later went Chapter 11.
Living.com went Chapter 7, which means kaput, out of business.
And its product line is taking a hit right along with the rest of the sales at Kmart, which went Chapter 11 in January.
In 1982 Larkin, then a Citicorp senior vice president, was bitten by the computer bug, letting himself be talked into joining the turnaround team at a PC distributor called MicroAge, which had just gone Chapter 11.
While going Chapter 11 doesnt do wonders for a company's credit rating (or reputation), "There are a score of lenders willing to provide financing" for bankrupt companies, says Scott Blakeley, a creditors' rights lawyer in Irvine, Calif.
Owens Corning, which went Chapter 11 in 2000 amid towering asbestos claims, filed a lawsuit on Oct. 2 against major shareholders, aiming to force them to relinquish dividends paid from 1996 to 2000.
When you are writing the book, do you go from chapter to chapter; chapter one, two, three?
