Word: flood-control
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...standard uniform of many a presidential tour. But he was also wearing a pair of rubber rain boots, hastily borrowed from a local farmer named Greg Miller. The occasion: a quick stop in Fort Wayne, Ind., where for a few minutes last week the President joined a crew of flood-control workers in passing sandbags to be stacked along the muddy banks of the swollen St. Mary's River...
...N.A.A.C.P. staff, at a time when lynching was still a threat in the U.S. "We had to provide physical security first," he said. At great risk, he investigated brutal conditions in Mississippi delta labor camps, and his report prompted Congress to set up minimum standards and wages for all flood-control laborers. In 1934 he succeeded W.E.B. DuBois as editor of the N.A.A.C.P. magazine, the Crisis...
Under current zoning laws, one house is permitted on five acres. But government scientists have urged raising the zoning requirement to one house on 40 acres. They argue that if the population is allowed to rise, the residents will clamor for flood-control drainage canals, thus further reducing the area's ability to clean and store water. Beyond this, environmentalists point out, development will imperil the East Everglades as a feeding and breeding ground for wildlife in the neighboring national park, home of such endangered species as the Cape Sable sparrow and the Florida panther...
While critics focus on her ERA and abortion votes, O'Connor notes that her legislative achievements ranged from tax relief to flood-control funding to restoring the death penalty. "She worked interminable hours and read everything there was," says Democratic State Senator Alfredo Gutierrez. "It was impossible to win a debate with her. We'd go on the floor with a few facts and let rhetoric do the rest. Not Sandy. She would overwhelm you with her knowledge...
...they are often invisible to pleasure cruisers. Collisions are common, and even if the manatee survives, its 1-in.-thick skin is brutally gouged by the sharp blades. One marine expert estimates that 80% of the state's manatees are propeller-scarred. Manatees also drown by drifting into flood-control gates; some have been cruelly murdered by vandals...