Within this group, there will be those who hope it is the beginning of a wholesale house-cleaning that would result in the cashiering of much of President Bush's national security team.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Tenet resignation should come as a relief

Adesa is the country's second-largest (and only public) used car wholesale auction house.

FORBES: On the Block

Beyond Sprint, its other partners include Time Warner, Comcast, Intel, Google and Bright House Networks with wholesale reseller agreements.

FORBES: Smoke Clears Around Clearwire

In it the White House's former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, urged a wholesale reboot of government computer systems and new security rules for electric utilities and Internet access providers.

FORBES: The Next Threat

Facts are murky and disputed, but by the end of 2009, Apple and five of the Big Six publishers (Random House being the outlier) had agreed to new business terms that overthrew the traditional wholesale model.

ENGADGET: Editorial: Bring on the digital overthrow of publishing

The fear in Canada is that the American purchasing restrictions, which at present apply only to federal agencies, is the start of a wholesale shift to greener as well as more protectionist policies under a Congress and potentially a White House controlled by the Democrats.

ECONOMIST: Canada