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Word: florida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following month, after obtaining a court order that required the infant to be handed over to them, the Sterns returned, accompanied by five policemen. In the confusion, Richard Whitehead slipped away with the child through a bedroom window. The Whiteheads then fled with the baby to Florida, where they were tracked down by a private detective hired by the Sterns. Authorities took the infant and returned her to New Jersey. Last September, Judge Sorkow gave temporary custody to the Sterns, but he allowed Mary Beth Whitehead to spend two hours twice a week with Baby M. on the neutral turf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Whose Child Is This? | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...seen. He said after that he might run around in the weedfield until he got lost, and maybe he did, too, because I only saw him one other time before I saw him dead at his funeral--he was hit by a post office truck in a Florida crosswalk on his way to Disney World--and that one other time I saw him was when Aunt Barbara got married to a man who owned a soda-bottling company...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: A Writer in Writer's Clothing | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

...Dupont Plaza had no sprinkler system; it is not required under local law. Puerto Rico is hardly alone in its failure to insist on the devices. In the U.S., guidelines vary greatly from city to city; Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts are the only states that make installation in all hotels mandatory. Governor Hernandez Colon has now promised to seek a law directing the island's hotels to install sprinklers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Year We'll Never Forget | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...miles apart in Ohio and were reunited in 1979. Eventually they discovered that both drove the same model blue Chevrolet, chain-smoked Salems, chewed their fingernails and owned dogs named Toy. Each had spent a good deal of time vacationing at the same three-block strip of beach in Florida. More important, when tested for such personality traits as flexibility, self-control and sociability, the twins responded almost exactly alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Exploring The Traits of Twins | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

Leading the congressional efforts to deal with the deficit will be the chairmen of the two budget committees. On the Senate side, the budget panel will have a new chief, Democrat Lawton Chiles of Florida. Chiles is no stranger to the budget wars. In years past he worked so closely with the former Republican budget chairman, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, that the two men became known as the Bobbsey Twins. In the process, Chiles earned a reputation as a sincere and often effective budget cutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pie in The Sky | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

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