Back in the late '80s, Drexel Burnham was busy coming to market with a succession of shaky leverage buyout deals with fixed-charge coverage ratios of just one times.

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For cyclical properties like airlines, industrials and even hotels, fixed-charge coverage of just one (suggesting that a company's earnings are just enough to satisfy debt, lease and principal repayment over the next year) can evaporate overnight.

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