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...settles in, California isn't quite the Golden State anymore. School districts are expected to lose billions of dollars in financing for improvements and development, and health-care services for the elderly, infirm and poor will most likely deteriorate. State employees are facing payroll cuts, unpaid leaves and a hiring freeze. Money for firefighting in parched Southern California is drying up, as is financing for levees in flood-plagued northern environs of the state. And that's just for starters as California faces a budget deficit of more than $41 billion over the next 18 months. (See pictures...
...innumerable persons, including constituents of the Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent…[and often causing] calamitous catastrophes resulting in the widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction...
...Jindal also reported that helicopters and 250 ambulances were available to evacuate patients in hospitals and nursing homes and make sure that some of the worst scenes from Katrina - the sick and infirm left behind - would not be repeated. Patients from 29 hospitals were evacuated to facilities outside of the state, 160 vehicles were available to evacuate pets, and 8,000 prisoners were evacuated...
...biggest challenge for the clergymen may be coping physically. Their liturgical calendar involves up to two Masses a day, visits to the infirm and serving as local school chaplains. It's easy to see why Delargy, slouched on a couch at Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios, already complains of exhaustion. Yet they will only get busier. A British film team is shadowing them for a documentary airing this fall, and in September the group will record a concert at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland, for future broadcast on public TV stations across the U.S. The promotional travel...
...only major golf tournament to return to the same course every year, the notion of following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal: at Augusta, golfers walk over the Hogan, Sarazen and Nelson bridges, and the tournament is opened each year by "honorary starters" - past champions too infirm to play 18 holes but fit enough to drive off the ceremonial first tee shot...