Zale Loss Widens Blames Hurricanes
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Jewelry retailer Zale Corp.  said Tuesday its quarterly loss widened as its business took a hit in the autumn from the string of hurricanes that battered the U.S. Southeast and Puerto Rico.
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WASHINGTON : The line of people filing new claims for jobless benefits grew last week, hurt by damage to businesses caused by Hurricane Charley, a US government report showed.
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Far away, off the coast of South America, the waters of the Pacific Ocean are cooling ominously. In the Atlantic, the sea surface remains warm. And overhead, the atmosphere is evolving toward what forecasters said yesterday could be a dangerous hurricane season.
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DENVER, Sept. 1 -- Hurricane forecaster William M. Gray downgraded his expectations for the 2006 Atlantic storm season Friday, calling for a slightly below-average year, with five hurricanes instead of the seven previously forecast.
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With the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season just a few hours away, researcher William Gray released his newest forecast Thursday still showing an expection for 17 major storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados Sept. 7, 2004 - Islanders scrambled to put up storm shutters and buy water ahead of Hurricane Ivan, as it churned toward Barbados with 105 mph winds just days after Hurricane Frances tore across the Caribbean.
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Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a weekâs worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the
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While Florida tallied the devastation  from Hurricane Charley, another hurricane and a tropical storm  gathered strength in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.
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The National Science Board urges the feds to bolster efforts to understand hurricanes. Despite huge storm-related losses, NOAA staffing is down 30 percent and the focus is on short-term forecasting, according to the report.
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State agricultural officials on Friday raised the estimated losses from Hurricanes Charley and Frances to more than &#36;2 billion, or more than 30 percent of Florida's &#36;6.4 billion in annual crop cash receipts.
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State officials say the statewide slowdown caused by Hurricane Charley, with estimated losses of $20 billion, will probably last no more than a month or two.
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More storms are forecast in the region of the Zambezi valley, where thousands have already fled their homes.
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Weakened after its long rampage through Florida, the lumbering giant of a tropical storm that began its tear as Hurricane Frances moved into the Gulf of Mexico early on Monday, leaving chaos in its wake.
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MIAMI, FLA. - Florida is bracing for a storm system almost twice as big as hurricane Charley, which killed 27 people and caused $7.
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Tropical Storm Barry weakened into a tropical depression as it moved through Tampa Bay on Saturday, bringing nearly 7 inches of rain to parts of the drought-parched region.
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Tropical Storm Noel weakened as it moved along northern Cuba on Tuesday, but the storm that killed more than a dozen people in the Dominican Republic was expected to become a minor hurricane as it neared the Bahamas.
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Weakened but still formidable, hurricane Frances was downgraded to a tropical storm last night as it spun slowly toward Louisiana, leaving a trail of flooding and destruction up and down