Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study estimated that 60% of Florida's households contain firearms. Florida also led the states in violent crime last year, with 1,037 homicides, robberies and aggravated assaults per 100,000 residents. Critics contend that more firearms will mean even more violence. Says State Representative Michael Friedman of Miami Beach: "The message we're sending out is, 'We can't protect you anymore, so go get yourself a gun and do the best...
...waiting for the phone calls that rarely came and reading anything she could get her hands on. "I just sat there and read. It wasn't that bad. It was just boring," she says. But after several weeks of life in the rat race, Debbie quit to become a beach...
...what if seersucker suits are quick to wrinkle in the humid D.C. weather, bowties become droopy after hours of uninterrupted hearing-watching, and Xerox machines are hungry beasts. The beach is only about three hours away...
...high as that sounds, the sum the Reids paid for their home is not all that unusual in the U.S. of 1987. In suburban developments from Newport Beach in California to West Bloomfield near Detroit and from North Stamford, Conn., to the Buckhead area of Atlanta, luxury houses that start at $500,000 and run well over $1 million are sprouting in unprecedented numbers. Reason: the unusually long five-year-old economic expansion and the record-breaking stock market advance have rapidly swelled the ranks of the rich. Says Ray Gentile, a builder on Long Island's North Shore...
...Bottle-nose dolphins beach themselves by the dozens due to what one researcher calls a defect in the immune system, immediately creating suspicion that a form of AIDS is responsible...