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Despite the problems with the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act, its sponsors, Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.) and Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), considered the bill non-controversial enough to merit "suspension of the rules," a technical procedure limiting the floor debate to one hour and prohibiting amendments. Even more suspect, all relevant House and Senate committees have waived jurisdiction over the bill. Shockingly, Congress has not held one hearing to study the proposal...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--With Mark Brunell and his two receivers misfiring, the Jacksonville Jaguars found another way to win--big kick returns and a punishing running game...
...part of doing business for male executives, has in recent years become par for the course for women. More than a fifth of the 26.5 million Americans who play golf are women--an increase of 24% over the past decade, according to the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. And the barriers that once kept them off the links during prime tee times (when the deals get done) have been dropping like Annika Sorenstam's putts. The result: one of the last bastions of old-boy networking has got into synch with the oncoming 21st century...
...extension of her office. "I have got lots of new customers as a result of playing golf," says Lois Rice, 59, an executive vice president of Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles. A survey this year by the Executive Women's Golf Association in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., found that its 13,000 members had an average salary of $78,325. Nearly 60% of respondents held upper-management positions with major corporations. Almost 30% owned their own business...
...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 $566 billion in 1988 to $1 trillion in 1995. Consider Pinellas County, Fla. The last hurricane struck there in 1921, when the county had 28,000 people. Today Pinellas County has nearly 870,000 people...