Riverboat casinos in Mississippi are closing, and levee managers are readying sandbags and supplies.
Mr. Clendenin said that managers were ready to maintain service and respond to emergencies in the event of a strike, noting that more than half of the company's managers came up through the ranks.
Giggs is likely to urge Rooney to consider the positives in Moyes's arrival: that the new manager is ready to accept the Englishman's protestations that he did not formally demand a transfer request of Sir Alex Ferguson, weeks before the manager's retirement, and that he is likely to give him more opportunity to prove himself in the preferred attacking role which Ferguson denied him.
And he appreciates there is more at stake than a place in the final when Rangers face Celtic in the Scottish Cup semi-final on Sunday week, not least after Neil Lennon recently questioned whether the former Brentford manager is ready for his first taste of the Old Firm derby which provoked a defiant response: "If you can't deal with that, don't be in the business".
Woodward makes it clear that while the effect on the business and the desire to maintain United's legacy of success has crossed their minds, there's no sign that Britain's most successful ever manager is ready to move on.
"From the top to the bottom, it's a wonderful football club and we have to make sure whoever comes in as manager is ready to take us forward, and he will know that everyone at the club will back him," said Harrop.
The Mets decided yesterday to make Jim Duquette their general manager and are ready to announce his appointment this week, but Omar Minaya, the Montreal Expos' general manager, will not join him in an equivalent role as a high-level talent evaluator.
Players, coaches, general managers, even clubs are ready to move for bucks.
Every manager thinks they are ready for the top, top level but I do not only think about the top.
