Word: jimming
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...they won a combined 41 seats in the 120-member Parliament. This time around, no one is expecting the minnows to poll so strongly - not even strong newcomer the Maori Party, which is tipped to win five seats. Some small parties could end up with no seats; others, like Jim Anderton's Progressives, Labour's socialist-lite coalition partner, could be reduced to a paltry two M.P.s...
...terrorist threats and attacks." Outlining detailed lines of authority in the event of calamity, the plan "ensures the seamless integration of the Federal Government when an incident exceeds local and state capability." The plan failed miserably, as even Chertoff was admitting by late last week. The problem, says Jim Carafano, a homeland security expert at the Heritage Foundation, is that DHS's plans still assume that state and local authorities will be responsible in the first 72 hours after a catastrophe. "In this case," he says, "the state and local response was wiped out. There was no one to fill...
...control and storm preparations, mangled the chain of command, missed every opportunity. And an angry debate opened about how much the demands of the Iraq war, on both the budget and the National Guard, were eating into the country's ability to protect itself at home. Louisiana Republican Congressman Jim McCrery--working the phones with FEMA, the Army, the White House, state officials--argues that Katrina revealed how much doesn't work. "Clearly, with all the money we've spent, all the focus we have put on homeland security, we are not prepared for a disaster of this proportion whether...
Where many boomers--as well as many Americans in general--are getting into trouble is in using their home as their personal ATM. "We're seeing more people get new mortgages in order to consolidate debt or buy a new car, for example," says Jim Nabors, president of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers. How do they intend to build equity? They are counting on escalating home values--not a smart plan...
Louisiana Representative Jim McCrery, chair of a powerful Ways and Means subcommittee, told TIME, "I've talked to the White House staff. I've talked to FEMA. I've talked with the Army. And, of course, I've talked with the state office of emergency preparedness. And nobody, federal or state, seems to know how to implement a decision, if we can get a decision." As in any war, the best weapons mean nothing without leadership and communication. On Friday, hours after even the President had shifted to calling the government's response "not acceptable," the No. 2 at FEMA...