Investors have become thoroughly disenchanted with the giant, which is flabby, virtually focus-free, and has a terrible record of acquisitions.
Though any declaration of war on Islamic and Arab terrorism should delight Israelis -- and did when it was first declared -- the virtually exclusive focus on Osama bin Laden and his network, Al Qaeda, and the expansive American courtship of most Arab countries, has left Israel feeling isolated and uneasy.
Unlike the case of corporate moral agency, wherein the corporate form is itself the source of the debate, the virtually exclusive focus on the large, publicly-traded corporation in the shareholder-stakeholder debate is strange.
This failure to legislate, combined with the virtually singular focus on the governmental debt and deficit, has pushed the social contract to the outer edge of the radar screen for many elected Republican legislators -- especially in the House.
However, participants across virtually all focus groups indicated that would address the issue directly or actively encourage their friend to seek professional help if they felt it was absolutely necessary.
"Virtually all the focus has been on the narrow issues of physical security, which are necessary baseline steps.
Instead, in line with the rest of the Washington politico-media bubble, they focus virtually all their attention on the murder in 2012 of four Americans in Benghazi, among them America's ambassador.
Classifying such a wide swath of people (more than eight hundred thousand as of 2015) as likely to re-offend requires law enforcement to constantly monitor each person, draining police resources and making it virtually impossible to focus on those who pose the highest risk of harm to others.
He chose to focus virtually his entire research effort on the problem.
European digital rights group the EDRI, which campaigns for free speech across the region, is also eviscerating in its response to the guidance, arguing that: "The document puts virtually all its focus on Internet companies monitoring online communications, in order to remove content that they decide might be illegal.
More significantly, they make it virtually impossible to focus on the program.
