1 They're likely to hold big fire sales to liquidate their inventory.

2 The company was forced to have a fire sale of its assets.

3 The fire sale was cynical stuff, all right.

4 Chrysler's sales surge has not required fire sale prices.

5 Products in the current fire sale!

6 And the federal fire sale may not be limited to problem portfolios at home; there are reports that some of those entities subject to Treasury's purchase-and-resale powers may be foreign.

7 This is the fire sale of a continent lurching from the farm to the factory.

8 The third rally started in March, after the fire sale Bear Stearns.

9 The result has been a kind of national fire sale, with companies and local-government-affiliated investment companies selling off assets to meet their debts.

10 The government clearly believes that rather than offloading them in a fire sale, it is better to hold them and sell them at a better price when the market improves.

11 So why is National still so fixated on asset fire sale failures of the past?

12 Tablets of most of its competitors are gathering dust or being sold at fire sale prices, as Hewlett-Packard was forced to do when it exited the business entirely.

13 Everything from boxes of pencils to an aircraft carrier is to be cleared out in an emergency fire sale .

14 A sovereign bailout should provide breathing space to perform a radical restructuring.But a fire sale of Irish banking assets is not the only way to cut the banks down to size.

15 BARC.L) got a $8.2 billion "windfall profit" from excess assets it took control of in the fire sale of Lehman's U.S. brokerage business a year ago.

16 Clearly, much depends on the price Lehman can get for its troubled assets in fire sale.

17 Howell picked up whatever furniture he needed at a Bronx fire sale.

18 So the company did what you do in such a situation. It announced a fire sale.

19 In theory privatisation has the scope to restructure the economy,[] but a fire sale risks letting the choicest assets fall into the hands of cronies who will manipulate regulation to suit themselves.

20 The automaker is weighing yet another round of layoffs — and maybe even a fire sale of venerable brands like Buick and Pontiac.