Word: raye
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...Spiras--has helped the company's sales jump, from $650,000 in 2002 to $3.9 million last year. The company now turns a profit and is on pace to double sales, to $8 million in 2005. "Spira is already comparable to the best running shoes on the market," says Ray Fredericksen, founder of sporting-goods consultancy Sports Biomechanics...
...Ray Nagin do everything he could to save his city...
...want to see anybody do any more goddamn press conferences...Don't do another press conference until the resources are in the city." RAY NAGIN, New Orleans mayor, complaining in a radio interview about the slow pace of relief efforts...
...National Guard. Bush praised the "good work" on Thursday, then called the results "not acceptable" on Friday. By then, 55 nations had offered to pitch in--including Sri Lanka, whose disaster scars are still fresh. "Get off your asses, and let's do something," New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin raged in a radio interview that he ended in tears. But he of all people was in a position to understand the odds. A city known both for its charm and its rot, not just from the termites consuming whole neighborhoods but from a corrupt police force, dissolving tax base...
...name on Thursday, Aug. 25, as it formed in the Bahamas, and by the time it reached Category 3 strength, it was obvious that the storm was a major threat. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a test. This is the real deal," New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin said at a news conference ordering city residents to evacuate on Saturday. "Board up your homes, make sure you have enough medicine, make sure the car has enough gas. Treat this one differently because it is pointed towards New Orleans." At FEMA's urging, on the same day, the President declared...