Given the gridlock that divided government will bring and how different people may define inessential very differently, the predictions of Republicans and independents on this may be wishful thinking.

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If Martin can amputate inessential drugs and divisions fast, the company has a chance of regaining traces of its former brilliance--this time without the balance sheet tricks.

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