Ice storm boost economic activity - survey

Canadian Underwriter;  October 1, 1998 ;     342 words ...The ice storm which paralyzed Quebec and eastern Ontario...commissioned the study to measure the impact of ice storm insurance claim payments on the economy...approximately 16,000 jobs were created by the ice storm, with more than 10,000 being in Quebec...

Response of forest understory vegetation to a major ice storm

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......forest understory vegetation to a major ice storm. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 131:45-52. 2004...Ottawa, Ontario was hit with a major ice storm. Detailed pre-storm vegetation data had...the four growing seasons following the ice storm (1998-2001), we resampled the same 164...

`Ice Storm': Shivery cautionary tale.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts &...

The Washington Times;  October 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ......also The Myth of Fingerprints and The Ice Storm. Fortunately, one reunion easily outclasses the others: The Ice Storm, entrusted to an accomplished director...scenes. Set on Thanksgiving night, as an ice storm approaches New Caanan, these scenes...

Feature film of the week: `The Ice Storm'.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 12, 1998 ;     355 words ...X X X THE ICE STORM 10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23 Cinemax X X X Like the first shock of winter, ``The Ice Storm'' arrives in all its frozen fury. A bitter-co...Like that wonderful production, ``The Ice Storm'' is structured so that everything that...

Feature film: `The Ice Storm'.

The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  November 21, 2003 ;     483 words ...Byline: Jay Boyar ___ `THE ICE STORM' Noon Tuesday, Dec. 2, FX. ___ The Ice Storm is a knowing look at two families buffeted by...bitter-cold masterpiece of family dynamics, The Ice Storm is set during the Thanksgiving weekend of the...

FILM REVIEW: 'Ice Storm' a portrait of the broken family generation

University Wire;  March 26, 2002 ;     423 words ......Miss. -- I'll say this right off: The Ice Storm is not a funny movie. It is not a happy...You will want to kill yourself. The Ice Storm is, rather, one of those deeply sad movies...Me mourned American innocence and The Ice Storm mourns the demise of the nuclear family...

ICE STORM Nature Adapts.

New York State Conservationist;  December 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......break, nature has bounced back from the Ice Storm that last winter devastated New York...were altered. DEC estimated that the Ice Storm, unprecedented in recent memory for its...are still assessing the impacts of the Ice Storm. In some cases the changes are dramatic...

SNOWE AND COLLINS: HUD WILL RELEASE ICE STORM FUNDING; SENATORS PRAISE...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  September 2, 1999 ;     527 words ......1999 SNOWE AND COLLINS: HUD WILL RELEASE ICE STORM FUNDING; SENATORS PRAISE APPROVAL OF...ALLOW DIRECT REIMBURSEMENT OF UTILITY ICE STORM COSTS Senators sought waiver in August...should receive nearly $19 million in ice storm recovery funds in the next few weeks...

CITY OF AUSTIN ASSESSES COST OF JANUARY ICE STORM

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 9, 2007 ;     248 words ......its costs related to the January 2007 ice storm totaled approximately $1.6 million...pulled together and ensured that the ice storm was kept in the realm of mere crisis...drop in collisions compared to the last ice storm in December 2005. We can all take pride...

`Ice Storm': A Family Affair -- Or Two

The Washington Post;  October 17, 1997 ;     600 words ......all their shag-carpeted glory in "The Ice Storm." The decade has been fondly spoofed...those unfashionable family values. "The Ice Storm" looks at the peril of emotional isolation...America was and is still becoming. "The Ice Storm" reminds us that the one thing we ought...

SNOWE: LIHEAP FUNDS WILL COVER GENERATORS PURCHASED BY LOW- INCOME MAINERS...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  February 6, 1998 ;     371 words ......PUP-CHASED BY LOW-INCOME MAINERS DURING ICE STORM Senator renews her request to the President...purchase generators during last month's ice storm may be reimbursed for their purchase...communities back to normal after last month's ice storm. With the restoration of electrical power...

`Ice Storm': More Chills Than Thrills

The Washington Post;  October 17, 1997 ;     651 words ..."THE ICE STORM" has its moments, mostly thanks to Ang...s always stealing Paul's prospects. "Ice Storm" is signposted everywhere for irony and...detonation of their toy planes, that ice storm cometh. A freezing rain that petrifies...

FRUSTRATED WITH MEAGER HUD ICE STORM FUNDS, MAINE DELEGATION ASKS...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  November 12, 1998 ;     559 words ......202-224-5344 FRUSTRATED WITH MEAGER HUD ICE STORM FUNDS, MAINE DELEGATION ASKS EXPLANATION...resulted in a meager $2.1 million to meet ice storm-related utility costs, Maine's Congressional...complete its recovery plans from the 1998 Ice Storm disaster, said U.S. Senators Olympia...

ICE STORM WAS BAD, BUT NIMO SAW WORSE; 650 CREWS WERE CALLED FOR THIS ICE...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  April 11, 2003 ;     549 words ......hours sleep, confident that the vicious ice storm sweeping through the state had already...Mohawk territory - the North Country ice storm and the Labor Day Storm, both of 1998...still pulling together data on the 2003 ice storm for a report to the state Public Service...

SNOWE PRIAISES AWARD OF $2 MILLION LABOR DEPT. GRANT ASSISTING WORKERS...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  January 28, 1998 ;     237 words ......GRANT ASSISTING WORKERS DISPLACED BY ICE STORM WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Olympia...assistance to workers displaced by the ice storm of 1998. The grant also will create jobs...hundreds of Mainers in the wake of January's ice storm -- a silver lining to a disaster of historic...