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RIM's stock had been skidding since February, hurt by a drumbeat of negative news.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2011

Started by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, United Artists had been skidding for years, was on the verge of bankruptcy because its two surviving owners.

From Time Magazine Archive