During the 1990s, CityPlex was the home of Commercial Financial Services, a large debt collection agency founded by Bill Bartmann, which at one point had almost four thousand employees, but then filed a high-profile bankruptcy in 1998.

Judge Gonzalez, who was appointed a bankruptcy judge in 1995, is no stranger to high-profile bankruptcies.

But the release of the Desert Fathers album happened to coincide with the high-profile bankruptcy of our distributor The Telegraph Company.

Some legal experts on bankruptcy say the roots of the recent crop of high-profile bankruptcies go deeper than the debt binge of the 1980's and the economic weakness of the early 90's.

But there's no evidence for this - on the contrary, despite the zero interest rate, corporate Japan has lately been experiencing an unprecedented series of high-profile bankruptcies.

They have found themselves in pivotal roles in many high-profile bankruptcies, including those of Texaco, Revco and Eastern Airlines.

That is not to say that we won't have some high-profile bankruptcies still to come.

More recently, the high-profile bankruptcy of the HIH group of insurance companies in Australia revealed that highly questionable transactions had been propping-up the balance-sheet for some years prior to failure.

Northwest's beneficiaries understand why, after a year in which a series of high-profile corporate bankruptcies gutted the retirement savings of employees who had heavy concentrations of company stock in their 401(k) accounts.

The move by Mr. McCaw, who is expected to gain control of the bankrupt company, is a big vote of confidence in the struggling global satellite telephone business, which had been saddled last summer by two high-profile bankruptcies and growing doubts about its viability.