An award-winning creative director sometimes holds the promise of a quick fix, but this can turn out to be a pipe dream.
But this year's turn to private money seems in line with other donation-based programs that have caught on elsewhere.
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When first installed, Pokki advertises its apps at the bottom of the Start Menu, but you can turn this off.
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The German and Swiss authorities recently reduced their statutory guaranteed returns to 3.25%, but this is unlikely to turn their insurers' life business into profit.
Most of the community's ties are to the Democrats, but this year they will turn out in force for the Republican Senator Spencer Abraham, a Dearborn Arab-American.
We are rolling this out slowly over the next few weeks, but you will be able to turn this feature on in your Account Settings soon.
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Since Forbes chose to do something childish, why not continue this trend, but turn it into a positive?
But will this be enough to turn round the troubled business?
Normally the Secretary of State, Eric Pickles, is the star turn, but this time we can expect some pointed questions to the new Planning Minister, Nick Boles, about possible moves to allow more development on green belt land.
Naturally we'll need to put this to the test once we're allowed to turn it on, but we expect this to be roughly the same quality as the Lumia 900.
They should be speaking out about this worsening turn, but as yet they collectively have not.
Long delays from announcement to launch aren't uncommon in this industry, but they rarely turn out well.
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The weekly relative performance broke through its downtrend, line g, but looks ready to turn lower this week.
But with this bill almost anything could turn into a procedural Gettysburg.
David Schick of Stifel Nicolaus estimates the Nook business, including downloads, lost money in the year through April but is likely to turn positive this year.
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We've seen Microsoft's Surface RT face similar accusations, but this time it's the turn of Samsung's Galaxy S 4 and how much space you'll actually get from that advertised 16GB of storage.
But for Verizon Wireless itself, this could turn out to be something of a mixed bag.
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Rates did turn higher this week but it will take another week or so before a top can be confirmed.
You can, of course, turn this feature off but if you are really zooming along, it might help you to avoid a speeding ticket.
Denver got its deficit down to 115-105 but this time it was Jack's turn to make a wide-open 3 with the Nuggets defenders scrambling around.
But this year it looks like he might turn things around with Up in the Air, the latest comedy from Jason Reitman, which has been getting box-office and Oscar buzz.
She said Mr Sutcliffe was "right to say the chancellor should perform another U-turn on this Budget but it's amazing that Labour's own ministers are criticising their own Budget within two to three weeks of it being announced".
He will soon turn 90 this month, but he leaves his position at the top of his game.
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But it might also turn out to be this decade's biggest financial fiasco.
And I think slowly but surely we're working to turn this economy around.
Knoblauch says UL will turn a profit this year but concedes that he's in the middle of a seven- or eight-year makeover.
But things took a turn for the worse this week when, to avoid the collapse of his centre-right coalition government, Mr Batlle had to sack his unpopular finance minister, Alberto Bension.
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This in turn reduces the deficit, but still ensures funding for the clean energy and energy efficiency sector.
The organisers had anticipated that hundreds of survivors would turn up to this demonstration - but only 24 came.
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