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gulf coast fishing industry farming hurricane disaster assistance relief
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Boolean Search for: Hurricane Katrina
AND Disaster Relief
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Hurricane Katrina AND relief AND (farmer* OR fisher*)
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Katrina AND (assistance OR relief) AND (farmer* OR fisher* OR religious)
Date range: Last 3 months
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Katrina assistance farmers
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Find results: with all of the words: Katrina fishing
With at least one of the words: assistance relief
Date: Return web pages updated in the past 3 months
Domain: Only return results from the site or domain: org
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