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- <title>
- Nov. 26, 1990: Business Notes:Bankruptcy
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 26, 1990 The Junk Mail Explosion!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- BANKRUPTCY
- In Deep Water But Afloat
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The self-proclaimed King of the Deal managed to stave off
- disaster again--but for how long? Last week Donald Trump
- missed a $47 million semiannual interest payment on $675
- million worth of junk bonds used to finance his Taj Mahal
- casino in Atlantic City. Taj bondholders had the right to
- foreclose completely on the casino, but the developer persuaded
- them to go into business with him instead.
- </p>
- <p> The agreement, subject to the approval of the bondholders
- and the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, will forgive at
- least $13 million of annual interest and allows Trump and his
- investors to split ownership of the casino fifty-fifty.
- Provided he can meet certain performance goals, Trump will
- retain control of the company as chairman.
- </p>
- <p> By agreeing to come to terms before they appear in court,
- Trump and his bondholders hope to limit to a few weeks the time
- the Taj spends in Chapter 11. But while Trump seems to have put
- out one fire, he will soon be busy with others. Over the next
- several weeks, he must make two more multimillion-dollar
- interest payments--for Atlantic City's Trump Castle and
- Manhattan's Plaza Hotel.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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