The officials, Robert J. Gaffney, the Suffolk County Executive, and Thomas R. Suozzi, the Nassau County Executive, appear to agree that, while circumstances would vary, the best advice they might be able to offer the public during an attack would be to take shelter and stay put.
The Uber chief executive appears to be right.
Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, appears to agree.
Also working in Mr. Huff's favor is that Mr. Parsons, the Time Warner chief executive, appears to really want this deal.
Now, Mr. Marron, the firm's longtime chairman and chief executive, appears to be waving a white towel in surrender.
Meanwhile, Tony Fernandes, AirAsia's chief executive, appeared to call out All Nippon for not being committed to a genuinely low-cost carrier.
The Stanley Works may tell investors about the need to be patient, but the company's chief executive appears to have failed to heed the same advice.
Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in February this year, Eric Schmidt, Google chairman and chief executive, appeared to rule out the prospect of paying for priority access to consumers.
When HBOS reported interim profits last week, James Crosby, its chief executive, appeared to say the big four would be unlikely to enter the race.
But further legal claims by Visto could be undermined by SetNet — a risk that Brian Bogosian, Visto's chief executive, appeared to acknowledge in 2003.
Meg Whitman, its chief executive, appears to be trying to get more control over the highly diversified company so that she can deliver more earnings to stockholders and then invest in new products and research.
