The challenge was daunting: The electronics and entertainment giant was struggling with red ink and management paralysis.
Red ink disappears by 2019 if spending is allowed to grow 1 percent each years.
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Painful revamping of a poorly integrated expansion led to red ink in 2001 and 2002.
Mitsubishi Electric is bleeding red ink while cranking out everything from room fans to satellites.
At Apria they forced out managers and directors who failed to stem the company's red ink.
Danish turnaround expert Poul Plougmann was hired to reassemble LEGO and staunch the red ink.
There was grumbling to start with, but once the red ink turned black, the complaints dissipated.
But he also wants to argue that the burden of red ink has crippled them.
The airline industry, despite usually loaded planes, is drowning in red ink because of rising fuel costs.
It was the first red ink seen since 1945, when the company was founded to make locomotives.
To overcome any queasiness about seas of red ink, analysts take refuge in ten-year discounted cash-flow models.
Epic levels of federal red ink and the approach of the 2012 elections have raised the stakes.
Unless your employees actually participate, your company will continue to hemorrhage red ink from health claims and premium costs.
Today that number is down to 20%, as Uniteds Atlantic routes have gone from spouting red ink to profitability.
Revenue is growing at a nearly 90% annual clip, and the red ink is a bit less than expected.
The remaining red ink is related to other nightmares from the dot-com bust, like employee severance and contract terminations.
While Washington can wallow in red ink, states have to balance their budgets.
Seemingly not a prize worth fighting over, but after years of spilling red ink the casino may finally turn around.
Of course red ink remains a long-term problem, and Congress must both cut spending and raise taxes to address it.
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Telecommunication builders and service providers, weighed down by debt and bleeding red ink, were thinned from our list this year.
The challenge here is not just to squeeze the red ink out of the accounts but to change Portugal's culture.
Penney keeps hemorrhaging red ink, the ability to expand that transition across its footprint is likely to come under pressure.
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In a TV business that has lost money for eight consecutive years, that is 30 ways to spill red ink.
To staunch the red ink, Novells board had recently installed Eric Schmidt, the youngish former technology officer for Sun Microsystems, as CEO.
This prefunding alone accounts for well over 80% of USPS red ink.
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Penney reported a disastrous quarter awash in red ink, while Cisco Systems came out on the opposite side of the coin.
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But policymakers elsewhere will be reluctant to spill the red ink again.
To chart his progress toward "moral perfection, " Franklin kept a daily ledger in red ink of 13 virtues, from temperance to humility.
"If we continue to do nothing, we will continue to see red ink as far as the eye can see, " he said.
All but the most accident-prone handset makers have stopped bleeding red ink.
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