Word: rebuilders
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...rehabilitate and rebuild all the city infrastructures especially those that belong to the city governments, including its sea ports, airports, road, bridges, schools, hospitals, universities and have committees of the intellectuals running and operating these facilities...
...This is the Big Easy, and sometimes we lay back a little too much. Get off your duffs." RAY NAGIN, mayor of New Orleans, after being sworn in for a second term, prodding residents to work harder to rebuild their Katrina-ravaged city rather than wait for outside help. Nagin's swearing-in came on the first day of the 2006 hurricane season...
...armed forces, Colonel Lere Anan Timur, summoned Reinado to his headquarters at Tasi Tolu, on the city's western outskirts. The two men traveled to the airport, where a tense meeting took place with Defense Minister Roques Rodrigues. "I heard the Colonel say: "I can destroy them all and rebuild again tomorrow,'' Reinado says. The Minister refused to give his approval, saying such an order would have to come from the Prime Minister. He then drove Lere to Alkatiri's residence, where a lengthy meeting took place. Afterward, Lere saw Reinado at Tasi Tolu. "He told me he has approval...
...world willing to see it through? The shame of indifference should be reason enough for action. But without more money from the developed world to help rebuild, without more troops to secure the peace and protect innocent civilians, without a genuine effort by Congo's leaders to work for the country rather than just their part of it and without Congo's neighbors ending their meddlesome ways, Africa's broken heart is unlikely to heal. In 10 years' time, you may be reading another story much like this one. The only difference will be that millions more people will have...
...lawmakers, who, through the Louisiana Recovery Authority, have more power over how funds will be distributed than the Mayor of New Orleans does. "It's time for a real partnership," Nagin said before a jubilant crowd of supporters Saturday night. "It's time for us to get together and rebuild this city. And when we rebuild this city, we rebuild the entire state...