David Cole

David Cole
dead detroit president wait washington
The president was right. If Detroit has to wait around for Washington to act, they'll be dead and buried.
complexity legacy practices tools
When you look at the complexity of the business, it's not really a surprise. There's a lot of legacy practices that need to be fractured. What they have now with e-technology are the tools to really get at it.
mistake
With that out there as uncertainties, it would be a mistake for them to put out any estimates.
denied women
Why should women from Rutgers and Livingston be denied the right to participate?
ask break change congress free officials order president
The president is free to ask Congress to change the law, but he isn't free to order officials to break the law.
based buy customer existing wage
But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.
begins buying economics economy-and-economics factor groups large mainstream neither primary question reasons sensitive
Neither of these are particularly sensitive to the economics. They have other reasons why they're buying this. There's a question as to how large those groups are, but once you get to more mainstream buying groups, then economics really begins to take over as a primary factor in that decision.
contract high matter size urgency
It's matter of very high urgency that they do this. They desperately need to contract the size of the company.
chance ford last major points views
Ford views Monday's announcement as the last restructuring in the sense that they may not have a chance to do something more after this. It's one of the major pivot points in their history.
huge obviously target
It's obviously going to be a huge target in the forthcoming negotiations.
becoming cusp growth mainstream strong
It's on the cusp of strong growth and becoming a mainstream part of gaming.
period
It's kind of like the bluffing period is over, and the doing period has started.
avoid head objective possibly
The objective is to head (bankruptcy) off if you can possibly avoid it. (Dana) will try to avoid it.
local objectives somebody strategic viewed
That's one of their strategic objectives -- not to be viewed as an import but somebody who's part of the local region.