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WorldCom files for bankruptcy protection

WorldCom Inc., the nation's second-largest long-distance company, crumpled into bankruptcy late Sunday, brought down by massive debt, a shortage of cash and an accounting scandal that rocked investor confidence.

By James S. Granelli and Elizabeth Douglass

July 22, 2002

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