In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).

SLMは2000年12月のドット・コムの株価暴落の間に運転資金を使い果たし、その年の12月19日までに完全に活動を終えた。
SLM ran out of operating capital during the dot-com meltdown in December 2000, closing operations entirely by December 19 of that year.

「市場は、苗のように育てられる必要がある小さな生命の気配を示し始めています」と、副社長とクライスラーLLCジム・プレス議長は言った。
"The market is starting to show small signs of life which need to be nourished like seedlings," said the vice president and chairman of Chrysler LLC Jim Press.

日本国籍を与えるのに（ｈ）にあるような容易な帰化は、方法としても実践としても合理的である。

:easy naturalization as in (h) to offer Japanese nationality is rational both as a measure and in practice.