But it allows the bank to release capital tied up in property and redeploy it in its core operating business.
By selling these and other buildings, "we harvest their value and redeploy it into new development," he said.
Nissan's new contender, for instance, takes the radical step of opting for front-wheel drive from a hybrid engine mounted in front of the driver, harvesting energy from the front axle and redeploying it at the rear.
Mr. Pawlenty, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, described the logic of the stimulus program in derisory terms: "We're going to take a dollar from you in the private sector, bring it into government, spin it around, take 5 to 20 percent for overhead, and redeploy it into the private economy and call that growth".
He realises that this may be painful and unpopular as it might involve taking resources away from an area that an employee is passionate about and redeploying it, but he stresses these kinds of decisions are imperative when using donations to prove value for money.
He might know plenty about putting together the financing on a big commercial development, but he didn't feel he had the skills or knowledge, he says, "to take this large corpus of capital and redeploy it into a diverse portfolio".
"We're just trying to take some capital from Google and redeploy it into the next big thing — in technology in general," not necessarily specifically related to Google.
The FIA has not said it has found anything untoward with any team, but the suspicion was that some teams may have been finding a way to collect fuel in the system, and redeploy it later.
He now controls it absolutely, sacking and "redeploying" its members as he sees fit.
It's also easy to bring it back and swap payloads and then redeploy it.
