The Fed's sandbag strategy will help ward off disaster, but it won't shore up a sagging economy.
Crews scrambled to patch trouble spots and build a second sandbag wall to catch any water weaseling through.
Then I lifted the sandbag and the blast took off my feet and badly damaged my left arm.
Damien Morris from Sandbag, a carbon trading campaign group, said he was supportive of the push for the higher target.
"The water is continuing to rise but it is our full hope and expectation that these walls will hold, " Nixon said of the sandbag levees.
France, as expected, is trying to sandbag President Bush, who insists Saddam Hussein is lying when he says Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction.
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Rob Elsworth, Brussels based campaigner for Sandbag, a U.K. nonprofit organization campaigning for effective carbon markets, said the vote sent the wrong message to companies, the public and the international community.
That's the remarkable story that emerged this week as the American Federation of Teachers president tried to sandbag hedge fund investor Dan Loeb at a conference sponsored by the Council of Institutional Investors.
Volunteers in the tiny community have worked endlessly since Wednesday to build a makeshift sandbag levee that seemed to be holding as the crest expected to be 11 feet above flood stage approached.
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