Word: rebuilders
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...Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. If it took that amount of pumping on a sunny day to keep the city dry, what would happen when the ?water overflowed the levees? I love this city and think the Federal Government should pay to relocate the people, but never rebuild. Our government could spend $10 billion to restore the city and the levees, and another hurricane could destroy it the next day. This is Nature's way of saying, "Don't build here." Don Clary, PALOS VERDES, CALIF...
...world seven years later. "Everything is being done to try to make the city as secure as possible," Giuliani said late on the night of 9/11 - at his second press conference of the day. "And tomorrow New York is going to be here, and we're going to rebuild, and we're going to be stronger than we were before...
...Erian said that he has worked to rebuild the internal portfolio management team so that it now covers five distinct areas. HMC has hired managers from the industry to head these teams, restructured its group of external managers, and improved its risk-analysis capability, El-Erian said. El-Erian said that the changes he has enacted appear to have been effective in establishing stability for the largest university endowment in the world...
...economy rebounded in the past several years, many executives began to wonder if they had gone too far. Introducing dog-eat-dog values into corporate cultures that continue to prize the organization over the individual generated worker dissatisfaction. Trying to rebuild company loyalty and decrease turnover, major companies including Canon, Kintetsu and Fujitsu have in recent years altered or scrapped their performance-based pay and reinstated seniority as a determinant of salaries. Meanwhile, trading house Mitsui last year reopened five dorms for single employees - a program that costs the company nearly $1 million a year. "We're hoping that group...
...spent a week in Iraq recently, and here's what impressed me most: the Americans. In particular, the quality and character of the American soldiers and Marines who are fighting there and trying to help rebuild the nation. I don't mean to slight, in some ethnocentric way, the steadfastness and courage of the Iraqi people. But it was meeting and watching the American soldiers at work that I found most interesting...