Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive director of Up Front, a Miami drug-information center. "It's an extremely compulsive drug, much more so than regular cocaine. The rush is so intense and the crash so powerful that it keeps users --even first-time users-- focused on nothing but their next hit." Police in Florida have noticed increases in burglaries and armed robberies in areas where crack is sold. Says Captain Robert Lamont of the Dade County police narcotics division: "These are the crimes that can generate enough cash for a , quick fix. Then it's off to the streets to raise more cash...
...ball and bat. He was a natural athlete. Baseball was his calling; he was a centerfielder, a more compact, combative version of his idol, Joe DiMaggio. Cuomo was good enough for the Pittsburgh Pirates to sign him for a $2,000 bonus to play in their Class D Georgia-Florida League. A scouting report prepared at the time singled out Cuomo for his talent and his aggressiveness: "He is another who will run over you if you get in his way." Once, when a catcher muttered an ethnic insult, Cuomo turned and punched him in the face mask. Apart from...
Perhaps the most ubiquitous form of plastic trash is the tiny polyethylene pellets used in the manufacture of plastic items. In one survey, researchers calculated that, on average, a square mile of the Sargasso Sea, southeast of Florida, contained between 8,000 and 10,000 bobbing pellets. Says Al Pruter, a fishery biologist and partner in a Seattle-based natural- resources consulting firm: "Almost without exception, surveys show plastic to account for over one-half the man-made products on the ocean surface...
...required to investigate every complaint and has been given the staff and money to do so. The result: disciplinary actions in the state rose from .7 per 1,000 doctors in 1982 to 1.5 per 1,000 last year. Other states that have vastly improved their records include Texas, Florida and Minnesota...
...steaks. Instead, this haughty-looking animal is a variety of humpbacked cattle native to India and Brazil that is crossbred with fatter and more flavorful bovine strains. Zebu breeding stock is raised by Liborio Hinojosa of H&H Meat Products in Mercedes, Texas, and is sold to ranchers from Florida and California. Zebu, which is now being tested for fat and calorie count at Texas A&M University, was the least acceptable of the beefs tasted. Both the meat and fat had an even sharper acidic flavor and aftertaste than the Chianina...