Likeable though he is, Mr Huckabee is tainted by an anti-business strain of populism and a literalist faith that sometimes blinds him to basic science.
The whole point of the process, she said, was to try to make the businesses strain to maximize gains, so that the combined company would "underpromise and overdeliver".
Existing networks are stressed by escalating flows of bits and bytes, data traffic galore, as the world downloads movies and video, transmits photos, shares music files and ups IT workloads as businesses strain to increase productivity.
The more severe business continuity strain, however, emerged when employees and the wider community could not countenance returning to work while their homes, neighborhoods and schools where darkened for 6 months without power and other essentials.
In Toast and Marmalade and Other Stories, she details the loneliness of growing her business, the strain of juggling work with four children and the sadness that overshadowed her family for two decades after her mother suffered severe brain injuries in a riding accident.
When small business owners strain to pay college tuitions, which eat up a good chunk of their incomes, there's little incentive for the kind of increased entrepreneurship that produces more jobs.
Yet differing approaches to basic principles of how to conduct international business have strained the partnership.
The bank was on the hook for billions of dollars' worth of huge buyout loans that few investors wanted, and its core consumer banking business was strained.
But as these new members buy virtual land, set up house for their avatars, and start in-world businesses, the strain on the Second Life "grid" is increasing.
Under such circumstances, it strains credulity to argue that Uber is not a "transportation company" or otherwise is not in the transportation business; it strains credulity even further to argue that Uber drivers do not provide Uber a valuable service.
He wrote: "Extension of the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains the rationale of these cases beyond the breaking point.
