Like any good crew, a decent department will try to diversify to spread risk, while at the same time focusing on the most profitable current lines of business.
Fourth, and related to those price problems, although electrification is a sensible upgrade of the current lines, it will not lower costs substantially or dramatically transform lines.
The current lines have deviated little from the original design established with the first models: simple, plain and decidedly low-key.
There were a few innovative watch novelties at the fair, with many brands focused on extending their current lines and highlighting their house's craftsmanship and heritage.
But some customers of its landline telephone, Internet and cable television service are reporting significant delays getting current lines repaired and new ones installed.
It has suggested schemes for permanent partition of the region along current lines -- part of Kashmir is already in Pakistan -- or a self-governing area that maintains Indian sovereignty and some kind of relationship with Pakistan.
This new revenue stream will be invaluable for charities struggling in the current climate, says Thomas, although it will add to, rather than replace, their current lines of funding.
A campaign scheduled to begin this week is to introduce a theme, "Grocery shopping perfected," that is intended as a more engaging way to express the company's philosophy than current lines like "A new standard for grocery shopping".
Deal-making is also being hampered by a shift in market sentiment away from the conglomerate and toward acquisitions that allow a company to focus on expanding its current lines of business.
Which seems like a much, much better argument for escaping from the shutdown cul-de-sac as swiftly as possible than for fighting it out on the current lines if it takes all autumn.
Usually unspoken – few are willing to explicitly describe today's violence as ethnically charged – is the fear that the current lines of fracture will align with those of the civil war, which in turn reflect the ethnic divide that triggered the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda in 1994.
