And, facing opposition from powerful, entrenched interest groups, governments have by and large been reluctant to do so.

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Resistance from entrenched interest groups has been strong.

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But Milan insiders think that it will be hard to get the right people with entrepreneurial skills, vision and the ability to take tough decisions and resist Italy's entrenched corporate interest groups.

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The company needs someone that's not entrenched, an outsider with little interest in pandering to internal big company politics and the post-Zander status quo.

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Both are also entrenched in their media businesses, have little interest in would-be successors and are prepared to wage war to protect their empires.

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One reason is that entrenched players like Cisco and Juniper have a vested interest in the status quo.

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And that's why there is no financial orthodoxy so entrenched, no conventional thinking so engrained, no special interest so strong that it should ever stand in the way of the change that hard-working families need.

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But if inflation were to become entrenched, gilt prices would tumble independently, because creditors would demand a higher interest rate from the government, to compensate for rising inflation.

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