Word: bay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I first ran for office, I ran in Back Bay, Beacon Hill," Frank said. "Harvard was highly regarded there, and the fact that I had graduated from there helped a little...
...When I first ran for office I ran in places like the Back Bay and Beacon Hill," Frank says. "Harvard was highly regarded there, and the fact that I had graduated from there helped a little...
Long before Hollywood dreamed up Waterworld, Laura Roberts grew up in it. Her family owned a stilt house in Miami's Biscayne Bay--one of seven that still remain in "Stiltsville," an eccentric collection of homes standing like flamingoes in the shoals seven miles off the coast. In Al Capone's day, the community doubled as an aquatic red-light district. Bygone booze-and-broads joints like Pierre's Bikini Club are etched in Miami's nefarious past. But today Laura, 35, and her husband Jeff, 36, use her family's stilt house as a weekend retreat, an octopus' garden...
That dream is as much a part of Florida as stone crabs and retirement condos. Which is why this summer even landlubbers are rushing to defend scores of stilt houses across the state, from Biscayne Bay to the Everglades and the Gulf Coast. Environmentalists want the state and federal governments to raze the structures, many of which are on public land, because they regard them as a messy human intrusion on Florida's delicate ecosystem...
...setting in his novels, argues that the houses can be lifesavers. He and his son, he wrote in the Miami Herald, once survived a violent storm by tying their boat to a Stiltsville pile. Hiaasen noted that Stiltsville helps the park by warding boaters away from Biscayne Bay's ecologically sensitive flats--which is important because "no body of water in North America attracts more certifiable morons in high-powered yachts and speedboats...