Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the American travelers are heading south. For ten years running, Florida has remained the most popular state for tourists. One reason: the Disney World amusement park in Orlando, the single most popular destination in the U.S. This year Disney may surpass its record of attracting 22 million visitors. The number of campsites in the area has increased 50% in the past eight months, to a total of 12,000. Disney World has also boosted the number of its hotel rooms 10% in the past year...
...that the twin units will use water rather than graphite to moderate the fuel reactions and will apparently be housed in containment buildings. Though full details are unknown, some U.S. physicists familiar with the Western-style reactors say they are probably no more dangerous than several now used in Florida...
...sleek three-stage Delta roared off its pad at 6:18 p.m. Saturday after a trouble-free countdown. Its main liquid-fuel engine and solid-fuel boosters all fired as planned. Delta soared into the clear Florida sky. Then, 71 seconds into its flight, monitoring technicians experienced a chilling case of deja vu. Their instruments showed that the main engine had shut down before it was programmed to do so, causing Delta to lose its flight stability. Veering out of control, the rocket began to break up. At 91 seconds, range safety officials destroyed it by remote control...
...sweet satisfaction for the long-suffering Domenici last week when the Senate voted 70 to 25 to pass a budget resolution he was instrumental in hammering out. While the plan was less austere than the one Domenici produced with the Budget Committee's ranking Democrat, Lawton Chiles of Florida, it is far more balanced than the President's proposal. The Senate plan calls for increasing military spending to $301 billion--$19 billion less than Reagan requested--while raising revenues (through new taxes or fees) of $13.2 billion, more than twice what the President wants...
Basically, what you've got here storywise is a young man, played by Nelson, who's been away from his sleepy Florida hometown for a couple of years ("riding a burro through the Grand Canyon, hang-gliding off the Catalina Coast," you know, just some regular, low-key stuff to pass the time) only to come back to find out that his father, formerly mayor and general head honcho, has been killed in the interim. The circumstances of the late mayor's death are, of course, mysterious, so Billy turns amateur detective/one-man vigilante squad in order to find...