The options they described included landing another big automotive client, laying off employees and considering "strategic possibilities" like a sale or merger.
The proposals Mr. Ashcroft described included measures that would give law enforcement officials expanded electronic surveillance powers, added search authority and new powers to seize assets of suspected terrorists.
The lessons he described included the propriety of the Fed's existing approach to monetary policy and the necessity of its various innovations, including lending dollars to other countries.
The cases described included a company in Inner Mongolia, a northeast region of China, caught with 23 tons of fake beef jerky and unprocessed frozen meat adulterated with flavoring chemicals and swarming with bacteria.
Successful program strategies described included program culture, responsivity to needs, and the focus on strengths.
Intermediate steps, as already described, included the estimation of P-factor (Fig. 4) which accounts for the degree of the protection cover effectiveness, and factor I (Fig. 5) which accounts for the degree of which this protective cover is bypassed due to flow conditions.
