Word: corals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make the job more manageable, the FWS has designated nine U.S. cities as official entry ports for wildlife. Freebooting traders, however, simply bypass them. For example, raw coral, used for jewelry and fish-tank décor, is barred from export by the Philippines. Yet in 1983, 540,000 lbs. of coral entered...
...first impression, in a roomful of them, is of wandering in an aquarium. Coral is everywhere: fans, rigid laces, spreading antlers, all speckled and inscribed with rainbow color. Growths push upward from the floor and terminate in mad displays of hair, Medusa-like tentacles and other scribbles. Though some sculptures seem to belong to the sea bottom, there are others that suggest the land-tropical nature, in its fleshy leafings and embowerings. The plants, or colonies, or whatever they are, ramify from narrow stems; sometimes they reverse the "normal" look of sculpture-well planted, firmly accommodating itself...
...explain his stand. Hart voters interviewed by TIME correspondents last week hardly ever mentioned issues, and many could give little reason at all for choosing him beyond a vague yearning for a fresh face. "I can't tell you why I voted for Hart," said Renee Goldenburg, a Coral Gables, Fla., housewife. "I just wanted someone completely new." Mondale's followers, on the other hand, often cited their man's stand on specific issues. Said Dewey Blair, a Georgia machine operator: "I think Mondale would be more inclined to listen to ideas for making the tax structure...
...these were the ones with Examiner Curtin, were not yet in the system. It seemed to hurt them not to get authentic Government computer proof of their achievements. "If I gave you the name of the product, could you bring it up?" one man implored. "Try underwater drainage or coral cavity evacuation.' Alas, it did not show...
...grabber: "Futuristic way of living arrives in South Florida... Bank at midnight from your living room." When Physician Alfred Damus of Coral Gables, Fla., ran across the announcement one day last week in the morning paper, his imagination went to work. With a system called Viewtron, the doctor and his wife Leatrice could monitor their bank accounts, pay bills, keep track of their stock portfolio and perform other financial tasks simply by tapping the buttons on a notebook-size keyboard. Later that morning his wife spent $600 for the Viewtron machine being advertised at a nearby Burdines department store...