Shelton is more candid: If your armed forces don't have the capability to carry out their missions, he told Congress this week, you can either increase the capabilities or decrease the missions.
It wouldn't be much better for Vivendi executives who have been candid about their disinterest in NBC Universal, an asset they've publicly dubbed "non-core"--and, perhaps more poignantly, their desire to off-load it to get "more headroom, " as Vivendi Chief Financial Office Philippe Capron put it at a conference in Spain last week.