Their funds remained mostly intact, but cities including New Orleans, Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City lost almost all such money.

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Stewart Moffat, farming at Wigton in the Lake District, lost all his cattle and sheep on 4 April, the 1, 000th confirmed case in what the NFU is now terming "the world's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth".

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"Lake City will probably get lost in the shuffle, " wrote The San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle.

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When he began attending Lake Academy in ninth grade, Mr. Lane lost touch with Mr. Szalay's girlfriend and "it all started falling apart for him, " Mr. Szalay said.

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His parents lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929, then became custodians at a Salt Lake apartment complex owned by a wealthy local Mormon family, the Coveys.

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Ian Lake, who was forced to quit as cabinet member for transport last March, said he had lost confidence in the council's Conservative group.

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