Word: inspector
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...Sonny says a FEMA inspector cried when he saw the devastation of Holly Beach. Yet, his claim was ruled "insufficient damage." His wife, Loretta, says they have appealed four times, but she's giving up. She sits on the steps of their trailer, drowning a new avocado tree with water from a garden hose. There used to be 40 palm trees bordering the property, she says. Now there are two. Loretta says she's having a bad day. All she can think about is moving - but they don't have anywhere else to go. "Hurricane Rita never happened," Sonny says...
...years ago, Dee Williams, a toxic-waste inspector, put her 2,000-sq.-ft. bungalow in Portland, Ore., on the market and moved into an 84-sq.-ft. cabin on wheels that she built using salvaged cedar, torn-up jeans for insulation and solar cells for power. Then she hitched her tiny house to a biodiesel truck and drove to Olympia, Wash., where friends agreed to let her park in a grassy corner of their backyard. Although Williams, 43, admits that she misses having room for friends to spend the night, she says, "I love my tiny house...
...become Princess Sophie (Jessica Biel), who is likely to be wed to Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), a potentate as brutal as he is handsome--and he is very handsome. If Eisenheim and Sophie are to resume their tryst, they must elude both Leopold and his wily Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti). All are ready to play roles in Eisenheim's game: to be his accomplice, his stooge, his unmasker, his ruin...
...outside their hut overflows with confiscated produce; statewide, 45,000 kg were collected in the past six months. The low-tech operation is winning the war for South Australia's $250 million fruit and vegetable industry. "We're the only state free of fruit fly," says Ceduna's senior inspector, Peter Lowe, "so it's working up until...
...demand for such social services in the Territory is so great that Borroloola is just another community in the queue. The Territory's Darwin-based head of Racing, Gaming and Licensing, Elizabeth Morris, admits that some complaints about the Borroloola Inn were not investigated for months after a licensing inspector failed to forward e-mails. But she blames most delays on an unwieldy Liquor Act (which is to be rewritten at the end of the year) and Borroloola's remoteness. "We have to charter a plane to get there," she says. As for the convoluted process for dealing with complaints...