When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

He inherited some income-generating property, but bad investments and failed business ventures resulted in a steady deterioration of the family's financial position.

* The Iris Robinson scandal in which First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson stepped aside for six weeks in January 2010 following revelations of his wife ’ s involvement in an extramarital affair, her attempted suicide and allegations that he had failed to properly declare details of loans she had procured for her lover to develop a business venture.

He returned when Cecilia was two, but left four years later after his business failed.

When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, requiring them to use up all the material as fast as possible.

David owned a general store in Hope, Kansas, but the business failed due to economic conditions and the family became impoverished.

Having sold off much of its historically profitable commodities businesses, and many of the new speciality businesses, which it had failed to integrate, the company consisted mainly of the Dulux paints business, which quickly found itself the subject of a takeover by Akzo Nobel.

After Peter's business failed, he began drinking heavily and abusing both his wife and children.

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

The QL, based on the Motorola 68008 microprocessor, was aimed at the hobbyist and small business markets, but failed to achieve commercial success.

The destruction of many buildings downtown, along with several failed business ventures in housing in the core, led to a reverse city-suburb wealth problem common in small cities with land to spare.

In terms of the questionable second-hand business, Watson later claimed that he didn't appreciate the implications of what he was doing, and indeed it is quite possible that he was so immersed in the work that he failed to understand the full depth of Patterson's machinations.

While on assignment out west and in an effort to supplement a military salary inadequate to support his family, Grant, assuming his work as quartermaster so equipped him, attempted but failed at several business ventures.

In 1896, the Independent ceased doing business and Amos Kling wasted no time in financing and launching another rival paper, the Republican Transcript, in a failed attempt to derail his future son-in-law.

After 3DO's flagship video game console the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer failed in the marketplace, the company exited the hardware business and became a third-party video game developer.

This business failed miserably, with many of the books " sold as waste paper ".

The attempt to continue as before as a low volume-high profit business enterprise with its core business in the spice trade had therefore failed.

The traditional professions open to college graduates — law, the church, business, medicine — failed to interest Thoreau, so in 1835 he took a leave of absence from Harvard, during which he taught school in Canton, Massachusetts.

Tracy swore that if the play failed to be a hit he would leave stock and work in a " regular " business instead.

Combe was a better business man than most Delegates, but still no innovator: he failed to grasp the huge commercial potential of India paper, which grew into one of Oxford's most profitable trade secrets in later years.

Perhaps an endeavor, like my father's business, could fail, but that didn't mean Father had failed.

At the age of 20 he moved to New Guinea where he bought a tobacco plantation, a business which failed.

International business contributes over 60 % of Bermuda's economic output ; a failed independence vote in late 1995 can be partially attributed to Bermudian fears of scaring away foreign firms.

Speculation long abounded afterwards that the bid was hindered by Toronto Maple Leafs president Stafford Smythe ; after a failed Vancouver-based business deal, he was quoted as saying that the city would not get a NHL franchise in his lifetime.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

It had been whispered privately that she had smiled in the congregation, and the Governor Prence sent to knoe her business, and command, after punishment as the bench see fit, her departure and also anyone who brought her to the place from which she came ' ''.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

Several years ago she married a Houston business man, Robert Graham.

`` That's none of your business '', she said, then changed the subject.

Perhaps it was because it was so late, and because she had no business to be here now.

`` It's none of my business '', said the next note, `` but my Aunt Elsie used to take lemon juice and honey in hot water for a cold, and she lived to be ninety-six.

In 1997 she and business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films, with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed.

" Observing her daughter rekindled Alma's interest in show business, and she decided to give Doris singing lessons.

Her husband ran the business end of the company and she managed the artistic side, often starring in the productions.

His mother, known as Dolly, was influential in the neighborhood and in local Democratic Party circles, but also ran an illegal abortion business from her home ; she was arrested several times and convicted twice for this offense.

The franchisee is said to have a greater incentive than a direct employee because he or she has a direct stake in the business.

At the time of Gustave's birth his father, an ex-soldier, was working as an administrator for the French Army but shortly after his birth his mother expanded a charcoal business she had inherited from her parents to include a coal-distribution business and soon afterwards his father gave up his job to assist her.

To appease her mother, who wanted Gaynor to have " something to fall back on ," she went to beauty school and took business courses.

Then with a loan from Rhett she buys a sawmill and runs the lumber business herself, all very unladylike conduct.

The piano teacher later decided to make a career change and become a children's agent, as she knew people in the business through her daughter's work.

Although she brought him a dowry of only $ 300, she possessed a frugal mind and a business judgment that he declared better than that of most merchants, and she assisted him in the practical details of his business.