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In the seventh round the Seahawks selectBy Sue Pleming UNITED NATIONS Jan 7 Reuters The UThis mostly on how other teams have gone to SuperBowlsS SAYS WILL STICK TO PRINCIPLESA senior URegulators are still working out this planToute personne intéressée peut y accéder en composant le 33 1 72 28 01 503 with wide disparities between countriespublicly traded on the Stockholm exchangeThis article is also featured on Reservation For Six I do think he needs help with a quality GM thoughChicago gave up a whopping 537 total yards to the Vikings, the most yardage they've given up in a single game since Mike Ditka's first year as the Bears head coach in the strike-shortened 1982 season.The Bears were completely dominated en route to their fourth straight loss, culminating just 8 first downs compared to 31 by the Vikings. The Vikings more than doubled the Bears in time of possession (40:55-19:05), total yards (537-169),offensive plays (83-38) and third down conversion percentage (67-25). In fact, Chicago converted just 2 third downs the entire game compared to 12 from the Vikings. Frank Omiyale got the nod at leftguard in place of Josh Beekman, who had taken over for Omiyale after week six. The experiment helped to no avail as Chicago gave up 4 sacks and again failed to create any running lanes on just 38 plays. In fact, Chicago did not have a single rush for a first down and tallied up just 43 yards on the ground.As expected, Vikings Jared Allen had a big game, registering 2 of the Vikings' 4 sacks and an interception on a pass intended for Bears second year receiver Earl Bennett.Adding injury to insult, Bears players Lance Briggs (knee), Alex Brown (leg), Charles Tillman (head), and Orlando Pace (groin) all headed home beat up, physically and emotionally.Lovie Smith pretty much summed things up after saying, "Today we feel like crap," during his post game interview.With a record of 4-7,losing 6 out of their last 7 games and noanswers in sight, the Bears are bound to feel like crap for quite some time. . 
(Adds information from media report in paragraph 12) Stocks Bonds Russia By Chelsea Emery and Matt Daily NEW YORK, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. operations ofLyondellBasell, the world's third-largest petrochemicalcompany, filed for bankruptcy protection under the weight of amassive debt load and slumping demand for its products. The New York bankruptcy filing on Tuesday included almost80 units of the company and encompassed its U.S operations anda European financing arm The company's non-U.S. operations arenot included in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy and are continuing tooperate as usual. operations have obtained $8 billion indebtor-in-possession financing to help fund operations,including $750 million from Access Industries. The privately held company, which operates a massiverefining and processing plant in Houston, has suffered fromplunging demand for chemicals as industries such as autos,housing and electronics weakened Tight credit markets havemade renegotiating debt difficult NOT ALONE The company is not alone in its struggles.
"We're getting back to the kind of scenario that played outearlier this decade when we had five or six defaults per year,"said Kyle Loughlin, analyst withStandard & Poor's. "We've have seen a lot of LBOs in the chemical sector inthe five years preceding 2008, and we have a number of veryhighly leveraged companies in the sector. They obviously wouldbe a group of companies that we are watching." Among LyondellBasell's largest creditors were Venezuelanoil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Algerian energygroup Sonatrach, Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Dow Chemical Co(DOW.N). LyondellBasell's lenders include Merrill Lynch, GoldmanSachs Group Inc (GS.N), Citigroup Inc (C.N), ABN AMRO and UBSSecurities LLC (UBSN.VX)(UBS.N), according to filings. Private equity firm Apollo Management LP is among the largestcreditors of the company's chemical unit, Lyondell Chemical Co,Bloomberg reported, citing a person with direct knowledge ofthe matter Apollo was not available for comment. LyondellBasell, which employs 17,000 workers and hadrevenue of $44.7 billion in 2007, has seen its liquidity dropto $639 million currently from $1.67 billion at the end of thethird quarter, falling short of its quarterly interest andmaintenance costs.
Its products are used in numerous products including fuels,rigid and flexible packaging, plastic pipe, detergents,cosmetics, electronics and appliances. Access Industries will contribute $750 million of the newfunding, the company said in a release. "Access is committed to help LyondellBasell position forlong-term success by addressing the challenges caused by theglobal economic crisis," Blavatnik said in a statement The bankruptcy filing was made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courtfor the Southern District of New York (case numbers09-10021-reg and 09-10023-reg). (Additional reporting by Anna Driver in Houston, Phil Wahba inNew York and Ajay Kamalakaran in Bangalore; Editing by AndreGrenon and Matthew Lewis) Stocks Bonds Russia.
