WATER VALLEY ON THE BRAIN
“I would have thought Mike Shanahan would be focused on getting into the Super Bowl at this time of the year, rather than Water Valley, although Water Valley is pretty cool.” – Martin Lind, developer, who is being sued by Mike Shanahan. The Broncos coach claims Lind promised to give him a home lot in Water Valley in exchange for endorsing the development.
WEST COAST CONNECTION
“We’re looking forward to growing. Who knows what markets will be next?” – Paula Berg, Southwest Airlines spokeswoman, announcing new nonstop service from Denver to San Diego and Oakland, Calif.
FAR OUT
“There’s a lot of combing through the operations to figure out where the synergies are exactly.” – Brian Ziel, spokesman for Seagate Technology, which acquired rival Maxtor Corp. He was responding to a question about the future of the disk-drive maker’s 2,070 Colorado employees.
GIVE ME HALF OFF OR GIVE ME DEATH
“(Consumers) want to see 50 to 60 percent off. If you don’t give them that, they’re not spending their money.” – C. Britt Beemer, chief executive of America’s Research Group, about this year’s deep before-Christmas discounts.
OFFENDED BY UNTOWARD CORPORATE CONDUCT
“The average Joe on the street may not be offended by some of the untoward corporate conduct we’ve seen, but Bill is very offended by it.” – John Suthers, Colorado attorney general, about what motivated U.S. Attorney Bill Leone to seek a criminal insider-trading indictment against former Qwest chief executive Joe Nacchio.
EXPECTING NACCHIO TO TELL ALL
“Squeeze Joe, and he will squeal like the pig he is.” – Edward R. Champion, retired Qwest employee, urging prosecutors to pressure Nacchio to tell everything he knows about activities of the board of directors while he headed Qwest.
