For the past year, Time Warner's board of directors has received a briefing on possible strategic alternatives at each meeting, among them a radical break-up.
They are a linchpin of reform, allowing politicians to argue that bail-outs will not happen again and regulators to resist calls for bigger safety buffers or a radical break-up of banks.No existing proposal looks sturdy enough.
There is no need for radical break-ups, revolutions or sudden changes in activities, but it is important to listen to what your heart tells you - there is a chance to redefine your leadership contribution.
If she can create robust incentives to invigorate Openreach in independent form, then, yes, let's get radical and break up BT; it's a big beast and would cope.
But is this a radical break with the past?
It was a radical break with legal tradition.
That would be a radical break with the recent past.
Once before, in 1996, he did act decisively and effectively to break up networks of radical suicide bombers.
A radical proposal by Republican senators to break up the C.I.A. and transfer other intelligence agencies out of the Pentagon met with an expected rush of strong criticism on Monday from influential lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats alike, and drew a noncommittal response from President Bush.
Bernie has called for some actions that are a bit more radical, like breaking-up the big banks.
The radicals among them may want to break up Nigeria and drive Christians out of the north.
