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<br />"I have long held the view that an ounce of prevention is <br />worth many pounds of cure. Mitigation and preparedness <br />are no exceptions in the business of emergencies and disas- <br />ters. While I realize from my experience ... that disaster <br />response has many constituents, and preparedness. mitiga- <br />tion, and preventive measures do not, I intend to work <br />very hard to emphasize the criticality of such programs." <br /> <br />(From a sta.tement of Julius W. Becton, Jr. before the Governmental <br />Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate in a bearing on his nomination <br />as Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1985.) <br />