The Fed's sandbag strategy will help ward off disaster, but it won't shore up a sagging economy.

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Crews scrambled to patch trouble spots and build a second sandbag wall to catch any water weaseling through.

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Then I lifted the sandbag and the blast took off my feet and badly damaged my left arm.

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Damien Morris from Sandbag, a carbon trading campaign group, said he was supportive of the push for the higher target.

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So why are Sandbag, these people, arguing this way?

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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.

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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.

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The other approach is to sandbag people.

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"They tried to sandbag us, " says Johnson.

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