Success and failure – Practice 1

 

Choose the correct answer:
  1. Financial experts say that Alicom has only a small debt to service and so may use its cash  to buy out one of its rivals.
  2. A failing business that knows it has no reasonable chance of avoiding bankruptcy should  trading
  3. If the negotiations fail, the company will be 
  4. Mr. Owen, chairman of Energis, is to receive a bonus of nearly $900,000 for his work in  round the ailing company.
  5. MidWest bank has made a strong  from the dark days of the farm debt crisis.
  6. Goliath is a successful company and for the past ten years it has  part of its profits as dividends.
  7. Raytheon has announced the $2.9 billion  of its competitor, Texas Instruments' electronic business
  8. When the company could not pay its debts the courts placed the company in the hands of a  in June 1897.
  9. Putting a  in jail means that he can't earn money to pay back the money he or she owes.
  10. Our economy could  under its huge debt burden – we owe $100 billion to foreign investors and banks alone.