ClearTips: Powerful paragraphs

Summing up: Pose a question

One question, or a series of questions, will suggest ways to branch from your argument or its possible trajectories. Or, as in this example, it can be used as a comment to linger in people's minds.

The real differences between the mergers of the 1980s and previous waves do not lie either in the hostility of the bids or the nature of the financing. They lie in why the restructuring took place and in the forms of ownership and capital structure that were assumed to be superior to the old. As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues: "I understand how it works in practice. But how does it work in theory?"

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