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How Mass Media Use Crisis Communications for Political Gain: the Broadcast Industry, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina: It's a common observation that crises such as wars, recessions, stock market meltdowns, ethics scandals, and natural catastrophes often drive the public policymaking process. A crisis reveals a problem and then a public consensus emerges that policymakers must do something about it. The policy debate then centers on the best...; Tags: Investment, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 commission, ethics, stock market, TV, stock, industry; White papers 2006-08-30
Public Safety Communications: Policy, Proposals, Legislation and Progress: This report provides an analysis of major policy questions regarding public safety communications. The 9/11 Commission recommendations for action to improve communications and the testimony and comments of experts provide a framework to review what has been accomplished since September 11, what legislative initiatives could be considered by the 109th...; Tags: 9/11 commission, analysis; White papers 2005-06-08
Aviation Security-Related Findings and Recommendations of the 9/11 commission: The 9/11 Commission found that Al Qaeda operatives exploited known weaknesses in U.S. aviation security to carry out the terrorist attacks of September11, 2001. The paper reveals that the 9/11 Commission issued several recommendations designed to strengthen aviation security by: enhancing passenger pre-screening; improving measures to detect explosives on passengers;...; Tags: 9/11 commission, terrorist attack, security; White papers 2005-03-30
Detection of Explosives on Airline Passengers: Recommendation of the 9/11 commission and Related Issues: The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, recommended that Congress and the Transportation Security Administration give priority attention to screening airline passengers for explosives. The key issue for Congress is balancing the costs of mandating passenger explosives trace detection against other aviation...; Tags: 9/11 commission, U.S. Congress, terrorist attack, R&D, security; White papers 2005-02-07
Critical Infrastructure Protections: The 9/11 commission Report and Congressional Response: Federal efforts to protect the nation?s critical infrastructure pre-date the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Since the attacks, critical infrastructure protection has evolved to include countering that type of an attack. Most of the recommendations made in the 9/11 Commission?s report deal indirectly...; Tags: 9/11 commission, attack; White papers 2005-01-11

Information Sharing for Homeland Security: Obstacles to Effective Information Sharing Still Exist Post 9/11: Despite the findings by numerous investigations and expert panels that the lack of effective information sharing between federal agencies, and between federal and local law enforcement, was a key cause of the failure to prevent the September 11 attacks, there are still numerous obstacles to effective information sharing in the...; Tags: homeland security, agency; White papers 2004-04-01
How The Events Of 9/11 Have Affected Lease Rent Abatements: As the economic reverberations of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks continue to resound, the impact of the day's events upon traditional lease provisions are beginning to dramatically unfold. In response to the attack, most commercial insurance carriers reacted by limiting or excluding terrorism coverage in their commercial property insurance...; Tags: Financial Planning, Homeland security, Reed Elsevier Inc., insurance, tenant, lease, 9/11 commission, terrorism, commercial property, leasing, terrorist attack; White papers 2003-10-14
Property Risk Management Lessons From 9/11: The focus of this article is upon prime property insurance and risk management implications of the September 2001 attacks. However, courts still are arguing over the meaning of various insurance policy terms that determine coverage. An outcome on those issues may be as unpredictable as Sept. 11 was. In addition,...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Strategy, SECURITY, Risk Manager, risk management, property insurance, 9/11 commission, Sept. 11, terrorism, insurance; White papers 2003-03-01
Force Majeure After 9/11: New Issues In A New World: It was realized after the September 11 attacks on America that Majeure need to be forced into. The "cause" problem has to do with the causes of force majeure, or the composition of the force majeure themselves. The reality now is that force majeure events are not as unlikely to...; Tags: Business services, SECURITY, Everest Group, service provider, 9/11 commission, risk, performance; White papers 2003-02-01
Leadership And Branding In The New “FUD” Economy: The recent events that have rocked the country, and the world; the economic recession, the 9/11 disasters, the continued bio-terrorist activity and threats, declining consumer confidence, job layoffs, the stock market decline, corporate governance issues, the commercial real estate market slump. M-16’s walking around America’s airports prior to 9/11? Today,...; Tags: Corporate law, Investment, Interbrand, 9/11 commission, corporate governance, commercial real estate, consumer confidence, branding, stock market, leadership, brand, stock, job; White papers 2003-01-01
Insurance, Terrorism, and 9/11: The collapse of the World Trade Center towers exists at the outermost edge of human comprehension. Even after one visits Ground Zero, the events of 9/11 retain a surreal quality, invoking feelings beyond words as one tries to contemplate losses immeasurable with numbers. Indeed, the insurance losses are insignificant when...; Tags: Financial Planning, Homeland security, American Bar Association, 9/11 commission, class action, insurance, terrorism, terrorist attack, vision; White papers 2003-01-01
Ensuring Disaster Readiness: One Bank's Lessons From 9/11: The banks had always tested the connectivity between its contingency sites and its clients' primary sites, but during the 9/11 disaster some clients were moving to their contingency sites at the same time as the bank. Many institutions had not adequately tested the connectivity between contingency sites, and this created...; Tags: Financial services, 9/11 commission, bank; White papers 2002-11-28
Lesson From 9/11: It's Not About Data: From the executive summary: ‘Most companies have overhauled their contingency plans, albeit not with the sense of urgency one might expect. It remains unclear whether companies are willing to spend more money to ensure that their operations can be restarted elsewhere should some form of interruption occur. That raises the...; Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., 9/11 commission, business continuity; White papers 2002-09-01
Sound Internal Communication Is Crucial in a Crisis Situation: The events of 9/11 affected all of workplaces. But, a question, which arises, is that what lessons have we learned from 9/11, and what will we do differently next time? To address these questions, the DC Region of Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) put together a half-day workshop on the...; Tags: crisis situation, 9/11 commission, crisis communication, workplace; White papers 2002-08-01
The Impact of 9/11 on the Hospitality Industry: The impact on the legal aspects of the hospitality industry of 9/11 have been immediate and as attorneys, other legal scholars, and operators begin to thoroughly consider the degree to which the impact will be felt, modifications to physical facilities and contractual relationships will be ongoing. The practical impact of...; Tags: American Bar Association, 9/11 commission; White papers 2002-04-25
9/11 Call: A crisis often brings death to individuals and destruction to properties and businesses. However, in times of crisis, there are certain hands that come forward and contribute in mitigating the sufferings caused due to the crises. On September 11, 2001, a crisis of immense magnitude followed the terrorist attack on...; Tags: Entrepreneur.com Inc., 9/11 commission, terrorist attack; White papers 2002-02-01
Leadership on 9/11: Morgan Stanley's Challenge: The article is an attempt to enlist policies of Morgan Stanley after September 11 attack. For Morgan Stanley’s top executive Robert Scott, who helped his company survive the heavy toll from September 11 disaster one leadership lesson is particularly clear. "If you wait for a crisis to begin to lead,...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, Morgan Stanley, leadership, 9/11 commission; White papers 2001-12-17
Restoring Industry Functionality After 9/11: Lessons in Disaster Recovery and the Value of Contingency Planning: The successful reopening of the US securities market their continuing functionality & the mitigating of credit risk, operational risk & systematic risk after the horrible events of 9/11 was truly an amazing feat. It required the close cooperation of all parties that are involved in every aspect of the national...; Tags: Strategy, Securities Industry Association, 9/11 commission, contingency planning, risk, disaster recovery, industry; White papers 2001-11-02
The 9/11 Response: This article discusses how the financial planning community is reaching out to those affected by the terrorist attacks. Despite the terrorists' objectives, it appears the lasting legacy of the Sept. 11 assault will not be a nation destroyed by fear, but rather one strengthened by a spirit of unity. The...; Tags: Financial accounting, Thomson Corp., financial planner, financial planning, financial, 9/11 commission, financial market, terrorist attack, Sept. 11, advisor, Web site, Web; White papers 2001-11-01
The Economic Impact of September Eleventh on the Securities Industry: This article provides a preliminary assessment of the tragic events of 9/11 on the US securities industry. The focus is on estimates of the net operating results of the US domestic securities industry, and separately, extraordinarily losses & liabilities incurred. Prior to the impact of 9/11 the report projects that...; Tags: Securities Industry Association, 9/11 commission; White papers 2001-09-30