In class that day, I tried to figure out a response.
They stalled Ford's efforts to send Carlos Mazzorin, Ford's group vice president for purchasing, to explain Ford's research, so as to give Firestone's legal and public relations team time to figure out a response.
His approval ratings were already at rock-bottom; he has no political programme; and the ferocity of the commission's criticism prompted an early huddle with his cabinet to figure out a response.
Amazon responded to my email request by telling me to call the company — because it was "not safe to get account details via email due to security reasons". Then I called Amazon customer service and was put on hold for 15 minutes while an agent scrambled to figure out a response.
It didn't take many brain cycles for Bill Gates to figure out a response.
Microsoft has to figure out a response to the politicization of Linux, and how to stop writing buggy software.
It seems that just as the nation's voters never delivered a mandate to either presidential candidate, they have also not figured out a uniform response to the constitutional drama unfolding in Florida.
"The Chinese are pursuing a pretty clever strategy and the rest of us haven't figured out a good response," says Admiral Dennis Blair, former head of America's forces in the Pacific and now chairman of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA.
Harris felt terrible about it, and as if that wasn't enough, a guy who worked at the bank went around her department saying, "Wow, can you believe it!" and "I don't think I've seen anything like that in my career". But she soon figured out a brilliant response.
Once that remote computer has figured out an appropriate response, it sends the information back to the iPhone.
For months now, she has found herself playing defense against Bernie Sanders, whose attacks mirror Trump's rigged game narrative, and as of yet she has not figured out an effective response.
