Previous temples of capitalism had presaged reversals of corporate fortune. Companies flush with cash had often built with bravado during a boom only to discover later that they had planted the steel at their pinnacle. In 1970, American Can Company had moved to a 155-acre campus in Greenwich, Connecticut, before beginning a series of layoffs and divestitures. Enron had been in the process of building a fifty-story corporate headquarters when it had filed for bankruptcy.
