They can also reduce the anxiety that grips whole societies in the face of corporate restructuring.
It was a novel response to management announcements that thousands of manufacturing jobs were to be cut in the face of industrial restructuring, international competition, and technological change.
Regionalism is often understood and presented as a pragmatic solution to intractable problems of fragmentation, inefficiency, accountability, spillover and neglect in the face of economic restructuring and other external threats.
Those cutbacks were regarded by TMG as prudent house-keeping in the face of digital restructuring as it sought, in the words of Jason Seiken, the group's chief content officer and editor-in-chief, to create a digital-first newsroom and in response to "ongoing challenges within our industry".
This retroactive implementation substantially changed the terms of the deal and diminished investors' bargaining power in the face of a restructuring, causing the downgrade, S&P said.
Kanebo blamed union intransigence in the face of a painful restructuring for the failure of the deal.Aventis formally rejected a euro46 billion ($58 billion) hostile bid from a rival French group, Sanofi-Synthélabo.
But making the military service law gender-equal, applicable to both men and women, would be a huge undertaking in terms of infrastructure and budget commitments for the Finns, who cling to their cherished national service operations in the face of widespread military restructuring and swingeing budget cuts.
Nikon's process of restructuring in the face of challenges to the digital imaging space has proven more costly than expected in more ways than one.
But the difficulty of restructuring in the face of declining margins has proven tricky recently for BT, with wholesale revenues down last quarter on the back of cut-price broadband, and a decline in low-margin business.
In response and in the face of intense foreign competition corporate leaders restructured as they recognized the globalized atmosphere of excess supply of almost everything.
