Word: louisiana
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Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana, a major marine-construction and repair company with a global clientele, was mired in the steamboat era when it came to information management. Each of Bollinger's nine facilities was buying its own materials and generating a hefty paper trail. For every part they ordered, employees had to fill out an eight-section purchase order. Those orders added up fast. Each patrol boat Bollinger built for the U.S. Coast Guard contained about 4,000 parts...
...rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 3 ft., enormous areas of densely populated land--coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh--would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically, making central Canada look more like central Illinois, Georgia more like Guatemala. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...American Shipbuilding Association, however, doesn't like to call them subsidies, and is determined to get its dough. It has lined up support from coastal-state Republicans, from Majority Leader Trent Lott (from Mississippi) to Appropriations Committee czar Ted Stevens (from Alaska). Democrat John B. Breaux (from Louisiana) recently wrote Bush that the guarantees should in fact be tripled, to $100 million. Lott cosigned...
...rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 1 m, enormous areas of densely populated land?coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh?would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically, making central Canada look more like central Illinois, Georgia more like Guatemala. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...Then we'll see whether McCain can live with it, or whether he'll feel that the evils of the system have just been further codified. But it's important to remember that even with all the publicity over the Breaux defection (Louisiana Senator John Breaux declared his opposition to the bill last week), and all the rumblings on the Democratic side, McCain-Feingold still has the votes to pass the Senate...