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...that blanketed parts of North Carolina with 50 in. of snow. In early winter, some Southwest cities got a year's supply of rain in six weeks. A record number of tornadoes (1,381 in all) touched down on U.S. soil last year, as well as the nation's costliest weather disaster, Hurricane Andrew, which destroyed $20 billion worth of property in Florida alone...
...Gibson's. "To be, or not to be," he says, lighting his trademark cigar stub. "Not to be." And Elsinore goes boom! But after a while, as the facetious film references (to everything from E.T. to The Seventh Seal pile up, Hero turns into the industry's all-time costliest inside joke. Watching it is as enervating as being on a real movie set. You see all of the sweat and none of the starlight...
...destroy houses and vaporize mobile homes, impale yachts on pier pilings and even strip paint off walls. With winds up to 164 m.p.h., Andrew proved more expensive than Hugo, which ripped through the Carolinas in 1989, and more destructive than any of the recent California earthquakes -- in sum, the costliest natural disaster in American history...
TAKE ONE CALCULATOR, SOME POLITICAL FINANCIAL EXPERTS and the estimated campaign budgets needed to elect California's statewide candidates this year, and what do you get? The costliest state election year in U.S. history -- about $100 million. Several factors converged to make it so: two state senate races going full blast, a reapportionment that added seven new congressional seats, and the highest expense of all, TV time. Television has become an absolute necessity for statewide election, since it's the only way to reach huge numbers of voters quickly. "We are putting our elected officials into hock the day they...
...B.C.C.I. used Miami as a staging ground for the largest single drug-money operation yet recorded, secretly bought and helped run the largest bank in Washington, and played a key role in duping regulators about the failure of Miami-based CenTrust Savings and Loan, one of America's costliest thrift bankruptcies...