At the sector-wide level, a set of detailed contingencyplans was put in place todeal with situations where the financialservicessectorasa wholewould beaffected as a result of theproblem.
But unlike the banks, lawmakers forced the companies to gin up detailedplans for long-term financial viability and ditch their corporate jets for compact cars.
Comprehensive and detailedplans, likely to produce the needed changes, have been coming out of academia, industry and financial think tanks, and less often special government commissions and the bureaucracy, for years.