And when he was 53, his Cajun-tinged jazz club in Sarasota, Fla. went belly-up.
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Spirit fans also belly-up to the tasting bar at across-town Urban Distilleries.
Look for them to go belly-up or be bought out in the next 12 to 18 months.
When the 1929 market went belly-up, those who'd speculated to accumulate lost everything, their homes and their livelihoods.
Should he have stood by while all not 1 or 2 but all the banks went belly-up?
He made a little money in the 1930s, then went belly-up in 1939.
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Another big green Administration favorite went belly-up on Tuesday with the Chapter 11 filing by battery-maker A123 Systems Inc.
With startups especially, if people don't hear about you or see you they begin to wonder if you've gone belly-up.
If an expat has a business and it goes belly-up, then they can walk away, go back home or to another country.
When the latter decide it wanted out, the whole thing went belly-up.
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But, they claim, many of those accounts were not properly insured, leaving them with no recourse when the bank went belly-up last year.
It isn't quite Rose Bowl season yet, but on Saturday, Big Ten teams went belly-up once more against the Pac-12: a perfect 0-3.
If someone makes a fraudulent transaction with your credit card or your bank goes belly-up, there are laws in place to limit consumer losses.
Adam Davidson, he's asking, how is it that we allowed companies to grow to such a dominant size that we can't afford to let them go belly-up?
In downturns, many of these one-unit, newbie franchisees went belly-up, leaving franchisors the difficult choice to either close units or operate more company stores.
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"What we want to do is catch someone who has gone belly-up but is going for it again, " says Howard Owens, a managing director of Reveille.
She thought very big: rather than just focusing on how not to go belly-up, she envisioned and encouraged her folks to envision a hugely successful Xerox.
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Somehow, during the closing credits, I managed to come back to earth, just in time to head over to the Belly-Up, the venue for the book reading.
Henry Paulson, CEO of Goldman Sachs, has suggested that CEOs who sell shares--for whatever reason--should have to pay back any gains if the company goes belly-up within 12 months of any such transaction.
And when I say belly-up, I mean kaput.
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Another year, another alternative energy company goes belly-up.
In one case the struggling business made a hugely speculative investment in high-fin loaches, but the sensitive fish were so traumatized by vibrations from nearby power tools that they all went belly-up in just a few days.
But Covisint was beset by problems from the get-go not the least of which was the failure of big car companies to agree on anything and when the dot-com bubble burst, the exchange almost went belly-up.
Consistent with the recent practice of several of these agencies -- namely, that of downgrading borrowers only when the whole world knows they are going belly-up -- Moody's downgraded GITIC's foreign debt last Friday, only days before the Guandong concern's bond default.
The Enron (otc: ENRNQ - news - people ) debacle focused additional attention as that company's top executives profited in the hundreds of millions from options they cashed in, only to see the ordinary shareholders lose all when the company went belly-up.
Buttery, salty, and sometimes thickened with tsampa (roasted barley flour), Tibetan tea is a buck-you-up belly warmer to see you through a winter's day or summer fieldwork.
Yes, solar-panel-maker Solyndra recently went belly up, leaving 1, 100 people out of work and the federal government with a half-billion-dollar liability.
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Michael Gottlieb's lighting is subtle to the utmost degree, and Charlie Corcoran, who designed the sets for both shows, has come up with a cozy pub so real-looking that you'd be tempted to belly up to the bar and order a Guinness if there were an intermission.
But you were selling instead while Congress dithered, the Fed let Lehman Brothers go belly up and the Bush Administration tossed band-aids into the crater of the housing market.
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