The Week in Words: Go along or replace? An apology; bleeding Chinook
"The implicit contract between Greece and the rest of the euro area - official support in exchange for a good-faith effort - is breaking down."
"The implicit contract between Greece and the rest of the euro area - official support in exchange for a good-faith effort - is breaking down."
- David Mackie of J.P. Morgan in London.
"We commit to take all actions to preserve the stability of banking systems and financial markets as required."
- statement by the Group of 20 major economies, on saving the global economy.
"I still bleed Chinook."
- Maj. Gen. William Crosby, pilot and a director for Army aviation, speaking at Boeing Co. in Ridley to mark a $130 million renovation of the Chinook helicopter factory.
"You don't deliver a quarter, you don't deliver another quarter, then you make some important announcements that are communicated poorly - it was incremental. Then you have to make the tough call of, how long do you go along with that? Do you help? Do you surround? Or do you replace?"
- Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman Ray Lane, on the firing of chief executive officer Leo Apotheker and the hiring of Meg Whitman to replace him.
"If you look at Facebook's history, obviously they are not afraid of making change. They have done a lot of big changes in the past, and people have gotten upset. But most of the time Facebook has been right."
- Sean Corcoran, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc.
"I guess our life is now packaged and streamed in real time."
- Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, on the latest Facebook changes.
"I offer my sincere apology."
- Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings, to subscribers
who were angry over a recent price increase. The company did not rescind the increase, and Hastings' comments launched new customer ire.