So it is worrying that Mr Milburn appeased dissident Labour MPs by saying that all NHS acute hospital trusts should achieve foundation status within five years—so blunting the incentive for the weaker trusts to improve their performance.
Things are not going well, it is whispered, at Mitsui and Chuo, two weak trust banks that are clinging to each other in a desperate embrace; or at Mizuho, the name hatched for the merger of Fuji, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB and Industrial Bankk of Japan (IBJ).
The results demonstrate that, when evidence against the company is weak, trust is restored more successfully with a denial than an apology.
China bailed out a weak trust bank, proving they learned the Lehman lesson.
Alan Johnson, the health secretary, wrote to congratulate 57 high-performing trusts and told six "double weak" trusts to meet his officials to explain themselves.
In the latest development, Mr Lansley has rescinded plans for a market-driven insolvency regime in which the weakest trusts would go to the wall.
Over the first six months of the year, health trusts in England were £630m in the red and that figure was recorded, even after a discreet injection of extra money by the government into the weakest trusts.
The results reveal that the effect of WCC on AST increases when brand equity is weak; for trust, both brand equity and purchasing risk act as moderators.
Either way, Mr. Sadjadpour said, it seems clear that Ayatollah Khamenei will try to ensure that the next president or prime minister is a weak and trusted subordinate he can easily control.
Even so, the ruling leaves federal regulation of how stations serve the public trust weaker than ever.
