The Northwest-Delta airlines merger is the talk of this town as you might expect. There has been much posturing up here as people and politicians realize that Northwest will probably leave this town as Atlanta becomes the new company’s headquarters.
I was reading an article on the merger in our local St. Paul Pioneer Press when I came across this quote (my highlighting):
As for the covenants Northwest signed with the state in 1991 on maintaining a certain number of jobs, the airport hub and Northwest’s Eagan headquarters, Anderson said “we think we can get to the spirit of the original covenants that were struck.”
That is a fat-worded, or fuzzy-worded, phrase of the highest order. Somehow I don’t think they are thoroughly committed to the original covenants.
If this was a sales qualifying situation, the sales rep would have to ask Anderson what he means by the phrase “get to the spirit.”