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Bankruptcy Continued from preceding page their creditors. Barbara Rom, a partner in the national law firm of Pep- per, Hamilton and Scheetz, has been a bankruptcy prac- titioner since the early 1970s. Pepper, Hamilton had repre- sented suppliers in the High- land Superstores workout negotiations. Ms. Rom calls workouts "less polarizing. Things can be worked out in private more easily," she says. In her estimation, 50 per- cent of attempted workouts manage to stay out of court. The other half end up in the bankruptcy system. Even when a workout is successful, there can still be economic fallout. A corpora- tion may leave a workout or a successful Chapter 11 bank- ruptcy stronger and better prepared to conduct business. But, Ms. Alter says, there may be a "domino effect." When a company reorga- nizes, it often downsizes or sells part of its business, and its suppliers are left with debt they can't collect, goods they can't sell and materials they can't get rid of. "So in turn, many of them file bankrupt- cy," Ms. Alter says. With major changes in the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, and the national recession of the early 1980s, bankruptcy has become a more acceptable al- ternative for ailing business- es, and large corporations have no choice but to contin- ue doing business with those who have reorganized. A special room for the chair that bumps the rail... Uncommon woodwork and trim for the exceptional home around the room that holds the chair that bumps the rail. Timeless design... Installation that endures. Call Bruno Trentacost to view our portfolio. 10 years of designs and installations. From one-of-a-kind pieces to complete trim and woodwork for many exclusive, fine homes. (313) 628-1406 Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354 6060 Attorneys Continued from preceding page the Bankruptcy Act of 1938 went on the books. "Those of us who have practiced bankruptcy law over the years laugh about the fact that up until about 1981, you rarely saw lawyers from the silk-stocking law firms in the bankruptcy court. "There was a perception that maybe they felt it was be- neath them to practice bank- ruptcy law," he says. He points out that while bankruptcy practice may have been dominated by Jewish at- torneys at one time, the lin- gering impression of bankruptcy as a Jewish area of law is overrated. "Years ago you saw it," he says, "but I don't think that today you see a 'Jewish bankruptcy bar.' " - 42 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1992 — Susan Knoppow "It's almost become a man- agement tool to file or to con- 1 sider filing Chapter 11," Ms. Rom says. "You don't want to do it if you don't really have to. The key is recognizing when it really is necessary and doing the surgery early, before the disease has spread." One theory of bankruptcy holds that a capitalist econo- c, my goes through evolutionary cycles, during which the less efficient companies are weeded out and replaced those that are more efficient. But, Ms. Alter notes, cor- porations today are going out of business, and none are stepping in to take their — places. "It's a long-term restruc, turing of the economy down- ward, which is very scary," she says. ❑ ••••11""i NEWS l'im"mm Ethiopians Tested For AIDS Tel Aviv (JTA) — A total of 297 of the 40,000 Ethiopian immigrants in Israel have- tested positive for infection with the virus that causes AIDS, the Health Ministry said in an effort to dispel -- rumors of a much higher in- fection rate. The ministry is seeking to set the record straight be- cause of "harmful and inac- curate figures" in the media about the incidence of AIDS among Ethiopian Jews, said Health Minister Haim Ramon. "This is the first and last time we will publish AIDS statistics by ethnic group," he said. Of the cases in the Ethio- pian community, 200 were registered among the newcomers who arrived with the Operation Solomon airlift of May 1991. The first major wave of Ethiopian immigration reached Israel in 1984 and 1985. In the general Israeli population, 185 persons are suffering from symptoms of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, he said. But 6,160 new cases of in- dividuals testing positive for c l HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, were reported in the first half of this year. The figure reflects a steady '=" increase in the incidence of those infected with the virus, up from 4,190 in 1990 to more than double that figure, 9,986, the following year.