Expanding capacity by issuing convertibles can be a risky strategy and lead to extreme heartbreak and red ink if mistimed, but expanding into an improving market can help propel results in a slingshot fashion.
It was part of a tried-and-true Nixonian strategy: Run to the extreme right in the primaries, then run as fast as you can to the middle in the general election.
Meanwhile, at Fox News, chairman Roger Ailes is realizing that extreme divisiveness has its limitations as a ratings strategy and an electoral strategy.
The suspicion deepens that the Obama folks have secretly adopted a strategy of making Republicans look so extreme that they will be driven from power in 2014 and the president can then govern as he chooses in his final two years in office.
Our plan to distribute technical resources has proven to be a good mitigation strategy to enable ongoing operations throughout a localized extreme event.
It represents a realization by Rove -- the father of the "red state vs. blue state, " "play to the base" strategy -- that there is such a thing as too extreme.