Word: roofing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...president and his first lady, Laura Bush, threw a reception for world leaders in the hotel's "Starlight Roof" ballroom, complete with an orchestra, servers in toques, votive candles in the elevator lobby and signs-reminiscent of a campaign fund-raiser-directing guests to the "Photo-Op/Receiving Line." On Wednesday morning, Bush addressed delegates, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, in the massive General Assembly Hall, where he was introduced as "His Excellency." Although providing Bush with an annual opportunity to be Mr. Multilateralist, these occasions must be about as comfortable for him as walking to the rostrum of the Democratic...
Robert Barnes PASS CHRISTIAN, MISS. As the water rose, Barnes, a concrete finisher, climbed into the attic and then onto his roof, then used his belt to strap himself to the top of a pine tree. "You could hear the tornadoes roaring," he says. When the flood abated, he discovered a neighbor's corpse. Bayou mud left little in his house to salvage. But he thinks he'll find work...
Brian Molere BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS. When the walls of his concrete-and-stucco home blew out, Molere grabbed his chihuahua Rocky, was swept from his roof, and swam and rode the current for two hours. He saved the dog but later found that his 80-year-old mother, in another house and on a respirator, had refused to leave. "I hope she went fast," he says. He knows many who have lost...
...morning, Aug. 31, two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Blanco was frantic. Without any aides along, she and her husband had made an unannounced visit to the Superdome the night before and seen how desperate the situation there was becoming. The arena was teeming, its roof was leaking, and people had begun dying. "They were scared; they were upset. A lot of emotions were coming from them. Some were sick. They needed their diabetes medicine," the Governor told TIME in an interview. "What we were dealing with was a minute-by-minute life-or-death situation...
...Connor and Raymond Carver and has promised to write new songs during this tour. He has already begun one, based on a recent video shoot at a grungy Los Angeles location and a chance encounter with a gay Viet Nam vet. "I spotted empty bottles all over the roof with the label Wild Irish Rose wine," he says. "So I started this song. It is about suicide. The opening line is 'This city of angels has brought a devil out in me.' " (Well, the band has been listening to a good deal of country music.) He yearns to write...