So, divesting itself of unprofitable private sector contracts is not as drastic as it might sound.
Boe, a Fairfield resident for many years, wanted to become involved with a sports franchise in his own backyard, so much so that he divested his interest in another A.H.L. team, the Worcester IceCats, to start the Bridgeport franchise.
So, in divesting itself of just 1.5 percent of the land, Israel significantly recalibrated the so-called "demographic equation" (the ratio of Jews to Arabs in the area under its control).
"Coal is not making money, not talking to you, there's no turn around strategy and there's an international climate conversation of which they want no part – so you divest".
Shakespeare lives in his words, so to divest those words from the story leaves a kind of airy nothing, a void which has to be shaped and filled.
Many of those who have divested so far are philanthropic organisations, universities and faith groups who use their endowments to fund their good works.
Of those 46 properties divested so far, the largest number of buyers was from China (19) followed by the UK (six).
The 13 US universities and colleges that have divested so far are mostly relatively small institutions, with the notable exception of Stanford, which in May said it would pull its investments from coal after a long-running student campaign.
With its roots in US campuses, the campaign to get institutions to pull their financial investments as a way of tackling climate change has seen a total of $50bn divested so far, according to the US Fossil Free campaign.
In 1994, Union Carbide (owned by Dow Chemical since 2001) sold the company's Indian subsidiary, and hence (or so it claims) divested itself of all responsibility for the plant, the disaster and its aftermath.
