Others believe that United either doesn't need the guarantees or, if it does, its problems were already evident on Sept. 10, 2001.
A fire destroyed parts of the park just four years after it opened and, while it was quickly rebuilt, its problems were far from over.
With the resignation of Jeffrey Skilling, Lay's longtime chief lieutenant, Enron insisted that some of its problems were behind it.
It has amassed more than £2.6bn of losses since its problems were uncovered and will only say it hopes to achieve profitability in the medium term.
And yet, it was hard to call Xavier deserving; its problems were of the players' making.
It is hard for people who don't know what the city was like in the seventies or the early eighties to understand not only how different it seemed then but how tragically insoluble its problems were believed to be.
But as the company grew, it attracted doubters, then enemies, who said its problems were pervasive, affecting all aspects of the business, from environmental compliance and public safety to record-keeping and customer service.
It can be hard for those who don't know or can't recall what the English game was like in the late Seventies or much of the Eighties to understand not only how different from today it seemed then but also how insoluble its problems were believed to be.
Reviewing it in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther said its problems were a "weak script," direction that seemed "completely artificial and stiff," and Mr. Ladd's reversion to "that stock character he usually plays".
SBC said its problems were caused in part by regulatory hurdles it faces in introducing long-distance service in states like California and also by high-speed digital subscriber line problems at Ameritech, the company with operations in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin that SBC bought in 1999.
