Now, too, we are to have 16 clubs in the National League and 14 in the American--a minor realignment that will see the Milwaukee Brewers step over into the senior circuit.
Ultimately, however, some Wal-Mart experts acknowledge a management realignment that will soon have the company back on a growth track.
"This is just a small realignment that will give TBWA more mass," she said.
And Procter & Gamble unveiled a major realignment that will restructure the consumer goods company into three business units and shift a large portion of its executive staff.
The move is part of a companywide realignment that will establish centers in five U.S. states as it restructures its research and technology operations.
The deeply religious claim the "heathen" Japanese were being punished by God, while others say the disaster is a sign of an impending galactic realignment that will bring a new age of peace -- or something.
That's a huge behavioral realignment that will take time and won't come easy.
My suggestion is this: re-elect Barack Obama in 2012 and draft Hillary Clinton for 2016 to achieve an era of reform and realignment that will powerfully change history.
Since suffering that big shock in the 1980s, it has become a well-diversified, fiscally sensible state; one where the great racial realignment that will affect all of America is already far advanced; and one whose politics is gradually finding the centre.
During their one-day meeting, the owners again discussed but took no formal action on the realignment that will be needed when the expansion Houston Texans join in 2002 and the six existing divisions will be turned into eight four-team divisions in two 16-team conferences.
