Word: dade
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True, treatment programs are expanding. Narcotics Anonymous, a self-help group modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, had only four members in Dade County, which encompasses Miami, in 1979; today up to 80 people meet nightly in each of 44 groups throughout the county. Private hospital programs have grown so fast in the 1980s that some experts guess they have become a $3 billion-to-$4 billion-a-year business. But their cost, often $300 to $500 per bed per day, puts them beyond the reach of the innumerable addicts who do not have employers or insurance companies willing to pay. Clinics...
...client wants to take the stand with a good alibi, but his lawyer strongly suspects the story is a fabrication. Should the attorney look the other way and let the testimony go forward? Miami Lawyer Ellis Rubin answered no, and last week his response landed him in the Dade County jail...
...What if a person, in an effort to continuously avoid going on trial when the trial date approaches, puts the lawyer in this situation?" he asks. "You would have a defendant who could manipulate the system by doing this to one attorney after another." Henry Harnage, president of the Dade County Bar Association, stresses the importance of following judicial marching orders. Says he: "It's a lawyer's duty to act in accordance with the rule of law as pronounced by the courts. Otherwise, we would have anarchy...
...into effect on July 1. But just under the deadline, long lines of lawyers formed in both states last week to file suits. On Monday fully 1,000 suits were launched in Denver's district court; 100 would be normal. A record 643 suits were filed in Miami's Dade County courthouse on the same day, almost three times the usual number...
...prime uses: archival scanning that once required exhaustive card- catalog searches and high-speed analysis of myriad numbers until the machine kicks out revelatory patterns. In 1979, for instance, the Miami Herald scanned with a computer all 2 million of Dade County's property-tax assessments to dig out inequities. In 1984 Long Island's (N.Y.) Newsday parsed every state- awarded highway contract in the area and all major county sewer contracts over eleven years to discover that five favored firms collected 86% of the boodle...