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...swimming team will be training in Key West, Fla., from December 27 to January...
...those who are afraid of cosmetic surgery or who are too young for a full face-lift. "I was starting to get lines, and they were not part of how I felt I should look," said Marilyn Tschida, 44, owner of a picture-framing store in West Palm Beach, Fla., who had frown lines filled out last month. Mary Nielsen, an Oakland sales representative who says she is in her late 30s, decided to ease her laugh lines when "people started calling me 'Ma'am' instead of 'Miss.' " Michael Epstein, 32, who runs eight miles a day and plays tennis...
There had been early warnings, a few cases reported around the country. But then 44 U.S. Navymen in Key West, Fla., began complaining of sore throats, fever and chills. Last week, after taking throat cultures from the men, doctors confirmed the bad news: Taiwan flu has arrived and begun to take its toll...
...their reliance on home mortgages and expand into riskier fields such as securities trading, commercial loans and real estate developments. Example: Territory Savings & Loan in Seminole, Okla., became insolvent last year, in part because of more than $10 million in losses on securities transactions. In Boynton Beach, Fla., Sunrise Savings & Loan fueled its growth with risky commercial loans on which it could charge high interest rates. Sunrise was reorganized by the bank board last year when its loan portfolio went sour...
Several days before Mondale's defeat, Landow and two colleagues on the Democratic candidate's 24-member finance board, Lawyer William Crotty of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Real Estate Developer Thomas Rosenberg of Chicago, discussed keeping the group together. More than fellowship was involved. Michael Berman, the Mondale campaign treasurer, recalls that they wanted more influence on political strategy. For instance, they questioned Mondale's wisdom in promising a tax increase. "This was not a group of flaming liberals," Berman observes...