Arranging such a commitment is often one of a company's final steps before entering bankruptcy.

This built even more debt on the company which entered bankruptcy again in 1998.

Last year, for the first time since 1989, fewer companies entered bankruptcy than left.

But Columbia appears to be the only company likely to enter bankruptcy.

The chain entered bankruptcy in early 2002 after 134 years of service.

Tower Records entered bankruptcy for the first time in 2004.

It is not clear how much financing Delta would need to enter bankruptcy.

Japanese, he said, might commit suicide rather than enter bankruptcy.

At the end of the 1974-75 season, the Penguins entered bankruptcy.

Southern's debt rose, and the company almost entered bankruptcy in 1932.