Indeed, the most important potential benefit of this bigger break-up is that it could bring the euro crisis to a decisive end by restoring confidence in a smaller but sturdier single-currency area.
It would be bad news for the UK if the eurozone crisis ends in a messy break-up but it is not the worst-case scenario.
Mr. COLE: Of course another option ultimately for the owners of Chrysler is to break it up into pieces.
So what would happen if - for example - the Competition ordered PWC to break itself up, which is something that it might well end up doing, according to my sources.
As a result, the idea of what it means to break up is also being redefined.
It is also shorter than it looks, with lots of pictures to break up the text.
Deutsche Telekom, the former telephone monopoly, owns the network but is being forced to break it up and sell it.
The question is whether it can break back up through the resistance at that moving average and establish it as support again, or if the moving average will now become overhead resistance that prevents the market from making further progress.
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The European Central Bank's offer to buy unlimited quantities of the bonds of governments that have requested support from the euro zone's bailout funds has already eased fears of a euro break-up, serving as a reminder that it is always a mistake to underestimate the power of a central bank.
In retrospect, though, cracks in the Soviet Union were (it is argued) becoming evident as early as the late 1960s, although it would not break up until 1991.
Plus, it is something else to do to break up the trip.
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And although the biggest group, Tata, will move beyond its family when its heirless fifth-generation patriarch retires in 2012, it is in no hurry to break itself up.
In the closing minutes, Edinburgh got their second converted try from a good break by Cairns and, although it is Glasgow who move up to third in the Magners League, Edinburgh won back the 1872 Cup.
But it would risk inviting a break-up of what is, at heart, just an old-fashioned conglomerate.
The full spill is hosted up just past the break, and trust us, it's crowded down there.
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But it concludes that the oil is continuing to break up and disperse underneath the surface, making the emergency of a major oxygen-poor dead zone unlikely.
"I think it is important to have a little break and weigh up my options and decide what to do next, " he explained.
The difficulties of other countries mean that Greece is no longer the only spark for a euro break-up: it cannot escape the wider blaze.
So, the question is not what would cause Europe to break up, but rather what would cause it to hold together.
Given the chaos sure to surround a break-up, it seems reasonable to expect that governments will continue to do what is necessary to keep it together.
It is not the first time the federal authorities have tried to break up the prison gangs by moving them to different jails.
What it doesnt mean is a mortgage backed securities crisis leading to the break up of numerous banks that are levered to the hilt and to a credit squeeze that causes layoffs of people thrown out of their homes by commercial banks and a massive number of foreclosures.
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Schilit goes into detail about how companies twist, bend and even break accounting rules to cover up bad news and make their fiscal status seem better than it really is.
The board said it met Saturday to consider various ideas that had been floating around in recent weeks, including a change in top leadership and a break-up or reorganization of the firm beyond the spin-off of Discover card services, which it is already studying.
One is to privatise the electricity boards, end Coal India's de facto monopoly or break it up, create new regulators and give teeth to existing ones, and then hope that market forces raise standards, tariffs and production.
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