Moira Finch is a broke, straight social climber with a heart of unalloyed steel who has a penchant for disastrous investments.
Ivanov might have headed to the apartment office and learned about some disastrous investment?
Now it is being pummeled by $18.5 billion of debt, depressed property values and disastrous investments.
It is not a rich estate, the present earl having had to sell off many of his outlying properties to survive after the disastrous investments his father made.
This, and some typically disastrous Conradian investments, had left him destitute and had precipitated a suicide attempt.
The unavailability of the money for re-establishing the family's financial soundness, coupled with disastrous investment and speculation in the early 20th century, caused severe financial hardship.
The conglomerate was then in the process of slimming down - after some disastrous investments in real estate, shipping and oil.
The Chinese government's earlier disastrous investments in various Wall Street banks have been the subject of bitter internal criticism.
By 1903 Jack had made some disastrous financial investments principally in a diamond mine in South Africa.
While with the company in 1979, he made a disastrous personal investment of US$750,000 in Zulu Dawn, which took him almost a decade to recover from.