Word: dade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...running, with an additional 200 on the drawing board. The movement's journal, the New Urban News, says investment in them has nearly doubled, from $1.2 billion in 1997 to $2.1 billion last year. Moreover, local planning boards in sprawl-plagued areas like Miami's Dade County are creating zones dedicated solely to such development...
...shock to the nurse, but it shouldn't have. Seniors are one of the fastest-growing HIV-infected populations in the U.S. Sunny south Florida, a magnet for retirees, has the largest concentration of people 50 or older with HIV. Seniors account for 14% of AIDS cases in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, compared with 10% nationally. "You've got people contracting it later in life," says Drace Langford, a member of the Florida HIV/AIDS and Aging Task Force. But there are also seniors who have been living with HIV for years, thanks to the effectiveness...
...crime wave that has victimized more than 600 agencies, netting perhaps 500,000 tickets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And the crimes are continuing. A Marietta, Ga., agency was recently hit twice for 6,000 tickets. "It's organized crime, and it's big," says former Miami Metro Dade detective Gary Yallelus, who along with his partner, John Little, first identified the ring. In 1996 and '97 they arrested 10 people in connection with the thefts, including several of the Colombians and Rafael Horacio Fernandez, 51, a resident alien from Argentina living in San Bernardino, Calif., who was part...
...cases, what boosted those early storms to Top-10 status was population growth. In 1995, for example, Pielke says, the population of two Florida counties alone, Dade and Broward, was greater than the 1930 population of the entire coast from Texas through Virginia. Like compulsive gamblers betting the mortgage, Americans have pressed their luck to the limit. There has been so much development on barrier islands and beaches along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, researchers say, that a hurricane of even modest intensity can cause a multibillion-dollar disaster. In Florida the value of insured coastal property rose from...
...fact, insured losses topped $18 billion. In Dade County alone, the storm destroyed 63,000 homes and damaged 110,000 others. Nine small insurance companies failed. Large companies raised rates, dumped policies and tried to pull out of coastal areas, but regulators forced them to stay. The "reinsurance" companies, which in effect provide insurance to insurance companies, also got queasy and sharply limited coverage...