break out, guard, old guard, recharging stations and incentives

Morgan Stanley also posted a $1.3 billion loss for the month of December, which was broken out separately because of a change in the firm's financial reporting calendar.

As Yahoo posted a decline in revenue and profit during the first three months of the year, the company's chief executive, Carol A. Bartz, remained guarded on the subject that investors have been most focused on: The progress of talks with Microsoft over an advertising partnership, which have heated up recently.



That has Microsoft ever done right?
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand With the exiting of the Old Guard - in the form of Bill Gates - from Microsoft and the coming in of the new Old Guard in the form of Steve Ballmer, ...

China Vies to Be World’s Leader in Electric Cars 
By KEITH BRADSHERIn a new threat to Detroit, China is investing heavily in hybrid and electric-vehicle technology with a plan built on research, recharging stations and incentives.



In Detroit, Bad Timing for a Renaissance

Fabrizio Costantini for the New York Times

Detroit Revival Vies With Industry’s Decline
By MICHELINE MAYNARD and NICK BUNKLEY
Even as Detroit shows encouraging signs of life, the automobile industry, the city’s life force, faces further declines in the coming year.



vie
verb [I] vying, vied, vied
to compete with other people to achieve or obtain something:
Six candidates are currently vying for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The two older children tend to vie with the younger one for their mother's attention.
[+ to infinitive] The two groups of scientists are vying to get funding for their research projects.

guard
noun [C]
1 a person or group of people whose job is to protect a person, place or thing from danger or attack, or to prevent a person such as a criminal from escaping:
prison guards
security guards
There are guards posted (= standing and watching) at every entrance.
Armed guards are posted around the site.
The frontier is patrolled by border guards.

2 UK (US conductor) a railway official who travels on and is responsible for a train

3 a device that protects a dangerous part of something or that protects something from getting damaged:
a fire guard
a trigger guard
The helmet has a face guard attached.

Guards 
plural noun
used in the name of several important regiments (= units) in an army:
the Grenadier Guards
a Guards officer
See also guardsman.

guard 
verb [T]
1 to protect someone or something from being attacked or stolen:
Soldiers guard the main doors of the embassy.

2 to watch someone and make certain they do not escape from a place:
Five prison officers guarded the prisoners.

3 to keep information secret:
Journalists jealously (= carefully) guard their sources of information.

old guard

also Old Guard
n.
A conservative, often reactionary element of a class, society, or political group.

[Translation of French Vieille Garde, the imperial guard of Napoleon I.]

Meaning #1: a faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas

break out (ESCAPE) phrasal verb
to escape from prison:
They broke out of prison and fled the country.

break out (START) phrasal verb
If something dangerous or unpleasant breaks out, it suddenly starts:
War broke out in 1914.
Fighting has broken out all over the city.