Archbishop Welby has proposed recapitalising a major bank and breaking it up to create regional banks.
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Edinburgh Airport is on the market, of course - forced there by the Competition Commission, which wants to see BAA's dominance reduced by breaking it up.
So last year, after admitting the gang's existence, the authorities had another go at breaking it up by shifting the new leaders from Carandiru to Taubate.
Health Secretary John Reid said the choice MPs faced was between "reforming the NHS or breaking it up", "between massive investment or savage cutbacks, between modernisation or privatisation".
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This would be pretty expensive for taxpayers, both because of the capital we would need to inject into the bank, and because breaking it up would involve pretty horrendous IT challenges.
And we hope, moving forward, perhaps by breaking it up, Republicans will support it and hear the call from their constituents that they want Washington to take action on their number-one priority.
The BBC's Business Editor, Robert Peston, said the archbishop's suggestion for breaking up a big bank to create smaller, local banks would be pretty expensive for taxpayers, both because of the capital the UK would need to inject into such a bank, and because breaking it up would involve massive IT challenges.
This would enable the hand, for example, to recognise an object like an egg and know how to pick it up without breaking it.
For as we talk about it breaking up people are moving their money out of the southern countries likely to leave it (and thus shrinking the local money supply) and this very action makes it more likely that the euro will break up.
Oh, and one more player: The Interior Department announced last week that it was breaking up its Minerals Management Service.
It committed to seeing BB10 through instead of switching to Android or breaking up the company, and it managed to deliver something that stands out against its competitors.
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When it comes to breaking up, if you can't reach consensus, Mr. Gerber recommends turning to a third-party arbitrator, such as an attorney or accountant.
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Despite beginning with a double fault, Ward soon found his rhythm hitting several aces early on, but failed to back it up by breaking his opponent.
He described mining hydrothermal vents as "more invasive" because it would involve breaking up the uppermost metre of the sea floor and piping the rock fragments to the surface.
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The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) wants the government to scrap the test - it says that breaking up families is more damaging than some migrants not speaking English.
" It's wise to consider breaking up the company from time to time, he says, but if Dow had done it in 2006, "we would have lost all that joint venture cash.
If it were to ask the Treasury to properly evaluate the costs and benefits of breaking up RBS, and publish such an evaluation, it would be difficult to see how the Chancellor could refuse.
On Thursday it surged up again, the Dow gaining another 106 points, breaking it clearly out of the previous narrow trading range to the upside, just two days after it had appeared to be breaking out to the downside.
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The states so strongly believe they are right in the case that they are seeking "nuclear-weapon-like remedies" such as breaking up the company or forcing it to license the source code for Windows, Mr Kovacic said.
Microsoft has many business lines, outside of Windows, and potentially breaking up the company could be worth it for shareholders.
And why is the Treasury still very resistant to the idea of breaking up RBS in this way (which it is)?
Having given up on the single-payer system, liberals resist breaking up the employer-provided model because it represents the next closest thing.
Mr Kelly said it would be wrong for the Scottish government to "railroad the legislation through" and that it was "bad practice to be breaking up the consenus on such an important issue".
Rather than breaking up the firm, he decided to keep it alive and save thousands of jobs.
Thus, the players are accustomed to an acceptable level of physicality in the game that technically could be a penalty, but in reality is rarely called given the impact it has in slowing down the game and breaking up its natural flow.
Church, 24, said breaking up was always difficult when children were involved but it was complicated by the media attention.
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After yet another mixed earnings report Thursday, it occurred to me again that the idea of breaking up Microsoft was worth revisiting.
While that was happening throughout July, high-quality short set ups were setting up and breaking down, and the distribution makes it look like the downtrend is going to last longer than people hope for.
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