CORPORATIONS: Stretched Debt

Executives of the crisis-prone Lockheed Aircraft Corp. are well aware of the risk in seeing a light at the end of the tunnel: they can never tell when it might be another freight train heading Lockheed's way. Last week, however, the light that Chairman Robert W. Haack saw turned out to be for real. Lockheed's 24 creditor banks approved a plan to restructure the company's debt in a way that clearly eases the aerospace giant's financial woes, though it does not solve them.

Lockheed's pressing financial worry was not a lack of cash...

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