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...eased this time because the Federal Emergency Management Agency is moving with uncharacteristic speed and vigor. From its creation 14 years ago right through Hurricane Andrew in Florida last summer, FEMA built a reputation for bumble-footed sluggishness. Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings once called its officials "the sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses." Under a new administrator, James Lee Witt, however, FEMA has moved quickly to set up offices in at least eight flooded states. Regional staffs actually went into some areas before flooding became serious to help state officials apply for disaster assistance. Witt has since started a daily morning...
...story is much the same elsewhere in Europe. Alpine forests in Austria and Switzerland have been denuded to make way for ski runs and cable cars. For the Conservatoire du Littoral, the French agency charged with preserving the Mediterranean coastline, the grossly overdeveloped French Riviera is the sorriest example of tourism gone awry. Not only has the coastline been ravaged by urbanization and the sea severely polluted, but tourism was down 30% last year from 1989. Pollution and overcrowding also figured in a similar drop in tourist revenues in Spain...
...Sorriest Dealmaker. All's fair in love and takeover war, or so thought Texaco. In 1984 the Lone Star oil giant pined for Getty Oil, even though that company had already pledged its hand to another suitor, Pennzoil. Texaco managed to seduce Getty with a sweeter offer, but the jilted Pennzoil persuaded a Dallas jury that it had been cheated. To avoid posting a $10 billion bond, Texaco had to declare bankruptcy. Eventually the company settled the dispute by wiring $3 billion to Pennzoil's bank account...
Basketball powerhouses seem to magically materialize. Rothstein should look at the Knicks' journey as evidence that a little wisdom and a lot of luck can change the fortunes of even the sorriest teams...
...Crimson's 34-0 shellacking of the Lions a week ago at the Stadium only went to prove that Columbia is still one of the nation's sorriest football teams...