Word: shadowing
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...executive branch has dispatched a rotating group of approximately 150 senior civil managers from major federal departments to ensure the continuity of government services in the case of a nuclear attack on Washington D.C. Although the move was prompted by Sept. 11, the shadow government will remain in place indefinitely. It is both essential and proper that the federal government plan for its survival in the case of a terrorist attack, but it must do so more transparently and thoroughly...
...immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 it was right of President George W. Bush to temporarily evacuate senior civil servants from Washington to be in position to oversee their regional department offices. But it was overly hasty of the executive branch to indefinitely implement a shadow government without consulting all of the leaders of Congress. The failure of the Bush administration to inform all top congressional leaders of the plan is indicative of the administration’s broader problem with transparency...
There are two issues the shadow government would have to deal with if ever called upon. The first would be to make sure essential networks—energy, transportation and civil order—are able to continue with as little disruption as possible. The second is to reconstitute the federal government. There is a difference in the amount of secrecy that should be involved in planning how the separate objectives would be achieved...
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...hard to remember, standing in Enron's long shadow, that a company in a growth crisis can be as fascinating as one that's just plain in crisis. But Hewlett-Packard is doing its best to remind us. The personalities driving HP's long-running and very public merger debate are larger than life, and the whole of Silicon Valley is riveted by the story. Which, if you haven't been paying attention, goes like this: CEO Carly Fiorina wants a $25 billion marriage with Compaq--the largest tech merger ever--to avoid being squeezed between Dell (the personal-computer...