"They're in a defensive mode, trying to hold on to what they have," he said.
"We were still in survival mode trying to pay bills," he said.
They are not reactionaries in the Tipper Gore mode, trying to whip up a moral panic.
Anderson and DeWolfe went into marketing mode, trying to boost the audience of their one-among-dozens social network.
Many others are going into survival mode, trying to renegotiate their loans, cutting staff, offering bargains to customers and closing less profitable restaurants.
Like early-80s era Depeche Mode trying to be prosecuted under obscenity laws, Kunt and his puppet pal Little Kunt perform routines about everything from Carol Vorderman to Fred West.
Neither of us had yet discovered what set her off, but went into full recovery mode, trying to get her to talk, reassuring her all was O.K.
Soon after the ads were unveiled, each campaign went into familiar rapid-response mode, trying to undercut the other's claims.
In anticipation of the widespread news coverage of this esteemed report, climate contrarians appear to be in damage control mode, trying to build up skeptical spin in media climate stories.
After backing his players' alignment with Concerned Student 1950, Pinkel reportedly spent the next few days in public backtrack mode, trying to gently separate himself from the movement a little more each time he was asked about.
