Messrs Bernanke and Paulson also have done well by acting quickly: it took seven years for Japan's regulators to set up a mechanism to take over large broke banks in the 1990s.
In their bid to simplify loading 35mm film, Kodak, Fuji and other photographic firms squared off the 35mm roll's lead-in tab so a modern SLR's motor-driven loading mechanism could grab the film's sprocket holes and wind it automatically onto the take-up spool.