Russia, eager for cash, flooded the world with its vast stores of yellowcake, and many producers in the West were forced out of business.

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Activists likewise recognized that leading companies would maintain "business as usual" in South Africa unless they were forced to pull out of that country.

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Unfortunately the companies did not move fast enough, and both NTL and Telewest, the companies that emerged out of the round of business failures, takeovers and forced mergers, were bankrupt by the end of the process.

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