You could argue that one or two smaller entities within the Samsung group had outperformed the huge Electronics flagship.

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Left to choose for themselves, smaller entities could go their separate ways.

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Take the corporate scandals: neither livedoor nor the Murakami Fund represents chicanery or economic distortion on anything approaching the scale of America's Enron or WorldCom earlier this decade, they are far smaller entities.

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