Some of Verizon's customers said they were outraged by the company's initial stance.
But a chance encounter with a stranger this weekend made me rethink my initial stance.
City Press's initial stance had an unlikely defender in Julius Malema, the expelled president of the ANC's youth wing.
As Beatts considered what to do, his initial stance was still being claimed by conservative commentators on wage issues.
The court's initial stance, taken in 2006, sent a shudder of fear through Asian debt markets.
Crisis management and public relations experts who are watching the Skittles situation unfold say the company has taken the right initial stance.
Any promise, tacit or otherwise, of a bail-out by others would only encourage more profligacy (a view that mirrors Ford's initial stance towards New York).
President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, had initially accepted delaying action on the report until March, but he reversed course and orchestrated the two-day special session in order to quiet domestic outrage over his initial stance.
We over-egged the pudding, perhaps once it started, and we suffered a sales problem because of it.' This experience was 'bruising' but the conflict's aftermath has vindicated the paper's initial stance, he says.
Finally, the Vatican's top bioethics official, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, also criticized the initial stance, saying the "credibility of our teaching took a blow as it appeared, in the eyes of many, to be insensitive, incomprehensible and lacking mercy".
