Quotes about binder (5 Quotes)


    Alan Binder, a professor at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., said it is unlikely Congress will act to bail out airlines, as it did after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Barring some catastrophe, ... going to let the chips fall where they may.

    But Card wasn't there to prepare Bush for his meetings in Europe. Instead, he presented the President with a 1.5-in.-thick binder of eight policy options for reorganizing the Federal Government to guard against terrorist threats. Included was an idea Bush had resisted for months the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the first new Cabinet-level department in more than a decade. Card walked Bush through the proposals and showed him a case study of how Harry Truman created the Pentagon in 1947. One option Bush rejected, Card says, was to move the National Guard from the Defense Department to the new department. And the overhaul did not encompass the agencies most in need of reform--the FBI and the sprawling U.S. intelligence community. Taking on those powerful bureaucracies would have meant a bigger war than Bush was ready to wage. The options were gradations from do nothing to do it all, ... pretty close to do it all.

    All managers carry a crisis binder, a checklist of what you need to do. The very first thing the company does is account for their customers and employees. Once that process was done, what we want you to know are the facts. We never speculate.

    Within a couple of days I got a job with Jack Binder's agency. Jack Binder had a loft on Fifth Avenue and it just looked like an internment camp.





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