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...however, it would be hard to match Montreal's 1976 Games. It has taken the city more than 30 years to pay off its extravaganza, the cost of which is still not entirely known, according to Humphreys. The Olympic stadium was a particular disaster; originally budgeted for C$156 million, it ended up costing the city C$2 billion, including numerous fixes to the roof and years of interest payments. The Quebec government had to introduce a special tobacco tax to help pay down its Olympic investment...
...work but first gets chauffeured to the subway station in an SUV. He exercises regularly and keeps a running calorie-counter in his head but throws salt on his pizzas, devours fried chicken, and grabs food off the plates of aides and strangers alike. He has already spent $37 million on an uncompetitive election campaign—spending $7,000 alone on pizza...
...will be a devastating impact if the water is released," Triplett says. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimates that if the dam needs to be released, the resulting damage could cost $3 billion. County officials estimate that the ensuing shutdown of business could cost the area another $46 million per day. The odds of needing to release the dam, according to the Army Corps of Engineers, are about 1 in 3. "That's a huge number," Triplett says. (See pictures of the worst floods to hit Manila in half a century...
...ultimately that grim reality that prompted Triplett to declare a state of emergency in early September, likely months before the dreaded event. Government officials have requested $40 million in federal funding to prepare - the dam is a federal facility - in addition to another $16 million from the Army Corps of Engineers devoted specifically to bolstering levees down the river. While Washington's congressional delegates fight for the money in the nation's capital, preparations and public-awareness campaigns are already under way - including driving home the importance of purchasing flood insurance, and buying it right away...
...many in the country are pointing fingers at its politicians for failing to predict the scale of the disaster or lessen the damage it caused. Manila, they say, was always bound to face such catastrophe, and more should have been done to help its millions of residents prepare. A recently published study by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSA), a research group based in Singapore, ranked metropolitan Manila as one of the provinces in Southeast Asia most vulnerable to flooding. The capital region is perched on a marshy isthmus that is crisscrossed with streams and rivers...