Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many national issues, Florida Senator-elect Bob Graham's positions can hardly be distinguished from those of Paula Hawkins, the incumbent Republican he beat 55% to 45% -- or for that matter from those of Ronald Reagan, who campaigned unavailingly against him. Democrat Graham, 50, who enters the Senate after eight years as Governor, supports the Strategic Defense Initiative and aid to the Nicaraguan contras, and he considers the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Act a "necessary sledgehammer" to trim federal spending...
...Everybody's talking about it," she said. "One guy from Florida Southern University wrote me, telling me how he heard about our situation and how he wished he could ship the whole dormitory some Charmin...
...Hartford W 6-0 Princeton W 4-0 Columbia W 2-1 (OT) B.U. L 2-1 Penn W 1-0 Brown W 5-2 Rhode Island W 2-0 Massachusetts W 8-1 Dartmouth T0-0 (OT) Univ. of Tampa W 4-1 Vermont L 2-1 (OT) Florida Intl. W 1-0 Cornell W 3-0 Princeton...
...general doctrine that one cannot take life to protect property is rooted in English common law. The law -- a leading precedent came from Florida's Supreme Court in 1981 -- is particularly wary of deadly traps, which act without discrimination. Rasheed's victim "could very easily have been a fireman, a policeman or someone who just wandered into the store," says James Mullin, chairman of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter...
...wake of the Miami grand jury's decision, Florida Legislator James Burke intends to sponsor a law to allow businesses to use potentially deadly devices to protect property, if they report them to police and fire departments and put up a warning sign. Meanwhile, Rasheed and his attorney Ellis Rubin plan appearances in Chicago, Detroit and other cities to start a campaign to change other states' laws. "Sometimes your property can be the same as your life, when it's the source of your livelihood," says Rubin. As for Rasheed, he says he is done with deadly traps and hopes...