However, the pitfalls of private ownership quickly became evident as Global Football Australia pulled out the Kangaroos venture, leaving players and coaches in the lurch mid-season.
Earlier this month, BSkyB cancelled plans to take a 49% stake in the venture, leaving the Kirch group to bear the heavy losses of the coming year alone.Merging with Premiere might help.
The latest of these is Douglas Ainslie, unlikely romantic protagonist of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, who has sunk his civil service pension into his daughter's ill-advised internet venture, leaving him and his disgruntled wife Jean (Penelope Wilton) without a nest egg.
Over the weekend, Vivendi Universal, the major investor in the film unit, withdrew from their joint venture, leaving Mr. Ovitz in the unenviable position of having to seek new money in an economy still trying to recover from the recession.
[C7.] Lenovo Moving Quickly Away From I.B.M. Brand Name Lenovo, the Chinese computer maker that bought I.B.M.'s personal computer business, has been moving faster than expected to remove the I.B.M. name from its brand-building venture, leaving many wondering if Lenovo has abandoned the I.B.M. brand too quickly.
Though it will take massive directorial feet to fill the shoes of the man behind Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, the trailer for Ghibli's newest venture leaves us feeling supremely confident that Miyazaki's legacy will remain in supreme shape. .
The recording studio failed to work as a long-term venture, leaving the family facing bankruptcy; but Osmond refused to walk away from considerable debt, and the family eventually worked its way out of it.
And because Exxon's expertise lay in oil - and not computers - it had no bullpen of Exxon executives to call upon when intrapreneurs in its information-processing ventures left or could not handle the job, Mr. Sykes said.
