Word: fla
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...NASCAR's season kickoff in Daytona, Fla., a couple of weeks ago, a new breed of fan eschewed tents and parked their six-figure luxury RVs adjacent to Daytona International Speedway. At the airport, over 500 private jets touched down to deliver more fans, among them Fortune 500 CEOs and team owners like Richard Childress, who spent their time in suites and luxury trailers. But the most telling sign that NASCAR is outgrowing its good-ole-boy, moonshine-running roots was the spectators in the Nextel Fan Zone, who didn't hesitate to plunk down $50 a bottle...
...vegetables. Miller’s team said the fattier diets may have resulted from snacking while watching TV, or from the influence of commercials for unhealthy foods. The report was unveiled at the American Heart Association’s Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in Orlando, Fla. The study was based on questionnaires completed by 1,200 mothers about the television patterns of their three-year-old children. The researchers controlled their data for certain socioeconomic factors and the body mass index of the parents. Miller cited the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which suggests...
...24/7 service, please use our website: www.time.com/customerservice You can also call 1-800-843-8463 or write to TIME at P.O. Box 30601, Tampa, Fla...
MARTA PERDOMO ALDAY Key Biscayne, Fla...
DIED. David Berger, 94, self-described "people's lawyer" pivotal in jump-starting class-action lawsuits; in Palm Beach, Fla. His battles, which he launched in the early 1960s, included suits on behalf of victims of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, for whom he won some $30 million, and a much publicized 1971 suit by service-station operators against Big Oil for the right to sell any brand of gasoline. The operators won that right, and $37 million in damages, in a 1984 settlement...