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Last week's marathon of rain and mud and wind cost 15 lives and up to $2 billion in damage, as some of the country's richest farmlands turned to stew. In Monterey County particularly, Nature brought herself to ruin: winds wrecked the orchards; floods loosened the vines and dragged crops out of the fields, which were too wet for tractors to plant new crops. Bees stopped pollinating, leaving peach trees and cherry trees barren. Even the cows were troubled, growing stingy with milk when their feet were wet and their routines disrupted...
...mayor wants to ruin a Boston tradition,so be it. But I wouldn't want that on myconscience," he said. GLIB members agreed that theparade will lose some of its luster, not becauseof the missing fire trucks and colorful policeunits, but because of its discriminatory stance...
...courts, will deny schooling and other state services to illegals. But Wilson's biggest achievement as Governor has been the fiscal stabilization of California with a budget ax that year after year has held spending to 1991 levels. It has pulled the state back from near financial ruin in spite of recession-reduced revenues and successive natural disasters. But stabilization came at painfully high cost. Successive cuts in California's higher-education system have been so onerous that state-university fees have had to be raised...
...Republicans' disorganization will surely be their ruin. Right now, they can run with Gramm or try to find a dark horse. No one even knows which party (if any) Gen. Colin Powell would join if he ran. Why bet on a party racked with instability and factional infighting...
...disasters surprised no one in Venezuela, where banking collapses have become periodic rituals, the economy has fallen into ruin and public cynicism is pervasive. Over the past 15 months, 16 private banks have failed and been nationalized. The government has picked up the tab for $7 billion in losses, equivalent to 16% of last year's GDP. Charges of financial irresponsibility, corruption and outright theft are flying. Arrest warrants have been issued for more than 100 people in connection with the collapses, and dozens of financiers are believed to have fled the country. President Rafael Caldera has charged that...