Word: rebuilding
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...Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin were the most visible politicians during the crisis, Borloo may be the only man with a real plan for fixing the banlieues. Last year, he launched a project - now budgeted at $35 billion over five years - to demolish and rebuild or renovate an initial 240 of France's most troubled neighborhoods. He's battling segregation, too, by situating as many as possible of the new developments in or near city centers. An employment scheme, meanwhile, is expected to create 500,000 new jobs, most of which Borloo says should...
...Korea. The second was when FEMA evacuated him to San Antonio, Texas, during the catastrophic flood that followed Katrina. As he jokes to his friends, both times the government picked up the tab. Now he waits daily for FEMA to give him hope as our family members try to rebuild and reconnect with our roots...
...when I’ve been offered a plate of food in which I was sure that if I ate it, I would get some kind of severe disease. But I always accept it and eat the food anyway. You can always treat a disease, but you can never rebuild that trust again. FM: Did Wes Craven personally contact you when Universal decided to make a motion picture out of your book, “Serpent and the Rainbow”? WD: What happened was my agent sold the book to a producer who brought the project to Universal...
...rebuild a business wiped clean by Hurricane Katrina? Start by dodging the M16s. A week after the storm pummeled the Gulf Coast in late August, Tim Spero, the chief technology officer for the NBA's New Orleans Hornets, drove to the team's training facility in Westwego, La., with a fellow Hornets employee and two friends. Their mission: to retrieve the team's teal uniforms, a batch of video equipment and a few computers to ship to another city when--or if--the Hornets started their preseason training camp. Reports of violence and looting had spread to Westwego; the team...
...change. The only visible difference, he said, would be the absence of trees that have been knocked down. Strecker said the destruction that bordered Tulane’s campus offers students the opportunity to perform valuable community service. “They get to take part in the rebuilding of one of the world’s greatest cities, and that’s an experience that no other student in the world has,” he said. Slattery said New Orleans had a incentive to rebuild Tulane, since it is the city’s largest employer...