Greyhound's strategy going out two years is to eliminate up to 75% of its 3, 400 stops, many of which don't produce ticket sales and slow down riders. (Only 50 of 1, 700 sales locations produced half of all ticket revenue in 2003.) Instead, it will concentrate on trips shorter than 450 miles and trips between big cities.

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In 1996, when I started out and told people I was going to change the strategy of the World Bank, at a point when I was virtually being kicked out of the organization, people told me that this was absurd.

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But even in these cases, generally paying for benefits out of wages is going to be a smarter strategy for employers, and better news for workers as a whole (including those who would have lost full time jobs), than the sad tidings currently on offer from the conventional wisdom.

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Their strategy is to keep this thing going, and then maybe it will peter out and people will forget and like to go back.

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Public concern is so great, media coverage so voluminous, the response from politicians so easily misinterpreted, and the fact patterns so detailed, that it would be immensely challenging for any industry to dig out from the weeds and identify a few fundamental themes to guide a strategy going forward.

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Devine, however, has not been able to squeeze any money out of the financially troubled Gillett and has embarked on a new strategy: He is going after the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Barrichello had also led that race going into the first corner, but lost out to Button, who was switched to a two-stop strategy.

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Instead, in his prepared remarks, Kindler seems to be emphasizing the drugmaker's ability to wrench big efficiencies out of its enormous structure--a strategy not that different from the cost-cutting going on at rival Merck.

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