break it up
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"I think that in the near future, they are unlikely to break it up."
From Barron's
Lou Gerstner was the first outsider to take the helm at IBM, the storied firm that once looked so dominant in computer mainframes that the Justice Department spent foolish years trying to break it up.
A dive into her idea notebook produced a dream about the Doors’ Jim Morrison for “Break It Up.”
Collagen is a large molecule so companies have now started to break it up into smaller pieces - collagen peptides - otherwise known as hydrolysed collagen.
From BBC
“On the other hand, we suspect the Ellisons did not purchase Paramount in order to break it up for parts.”
From Los Angeles Times
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