Word: fema
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...TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says he still could. "Most of the additions are fine by him, like the hurricane relief to Central America and the FEMA funds for Oklahoma," he says. But Washington senator Slade Gorton's gold-mine rider directly overturns an administration decision to block the mine, and Clinton still has the political capital on Kosovo to demand a leaner, cleaner bill. "It's a game of chicken, but the Republicans already look bad on Kosovo," Branegan says. "Clinton could probably score some points by accusing Congress of slowing down the bill with pork, and they...
...plagues," whispers kook-savant Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil (Martin Landau), who spends most of his time hiding in a fetid back alley hoping Mulder will show up. The aliens, you see, were earth's original inhabitants, and they are being tracked by that all-round evilest of government conspiracies, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency). We feel ourselves sliding deeper into Art Bell territory--into the all-night radioland of sci-fi-cobabble. Believe who will. Follow...
...FEMA Directory Tours Boston...
Federal Energency Management Agency (FEMA) director James L. Witt, accompanied by executive associate director for response and recovery operations Lacy Suiter, inspected flood-damaged areas in Boston yesterday morning...
...Unless we work much harder on mitigating the effects, $20 billion to $30 billion losses are going to be routine." A week after Hurricane Andrew struck in August 1992, the damage estimate was $7.3 billion; a year later, that figure is more than $21 billion. Eight months after Andrew, FEMA had doled out only $120 million in aid to the people of Dade County, far less than the $1.2 billion that was earmarked...