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the company went belly-up
- Critics in both parties say the threat of the executives' firms going belly-up should ensure their cooperation regardless of what restrictions are placed on their once golden .
- And how was it that they were still rating Enron's debt as investment grade four days before the company went belly-up in 2001? The furor over such missteps usually fades quickly.
- Nothing could have been a box office success, I believe, but its distributor went belly-up in the economic downturn.