18 Quotes by David Cooper

We've been here a couple days, and never expected to see anything like this,

Since September 11 we have been continually challenged.

Only 15 per cent of the operations we did were amputations. Normally that would have been much higher.

We took into account what happened in PNG in 1998 when we configured the teams. We really needed to get the mix right.

We hope that it will bring people to our community.

We had one customer that chose Mexico over China. The two were within a percentage point in landed costs, but all of the customers' engineers were in the northeastern U.S. The one-hour time difference to Mexico was important. When they have issues with manufacturing, for seven out of eight hours of the shift, the engineers are on duty too. It is also easier to travel to Mexico for a couple of days.

With all the trouble at HIH it would do you the world of good,

We found the Corps modified the contract, the day after it was awarded, to allow the contractor to substitute a different mix of classrooms than required by the contract, ... We found little evidence that the Corps conducted a complete analysis to determine the impact of the modifications on the contract price.

We expect the first wave of the epidemic to go for eight to 12 weeks; then there is usually a second peak - how are we going to exist in those eight weeks without shutting the whole society down is a difficult question.