Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effective chairman, William Gray of Philadelphia, held hearings on Reagan's proposed cuts in five cities coast to coast. "Ronald Reagan has declared war on the city of Chicago," fumed Mayor Harold Washington. The President's "dastardly" budget, exclaimed Budd Bell, head of the Florida Clearinghouse on Human Services at a hearing in Tallahassee, "will result in the dismantling of many lifesustaining programs." Ron Anderson, president of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, denounced cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, maternal- and child-health grants and childhood immunization programs as being likely to produce "short-term gains and long-term tragedies...
Canadian tourists were suddenly thinking twice about vacations to Florida, while Americans were packing up for ski trips to the Laurentians, north of Montreal. Reason: the continuing decline of the Canadian dollar, which early last week fell below 70 American cents for the first time and hit a low point of 69.24 cents on Tuesday. Alarmed by the drop, the government-owned Bank of Canada intervened heavily in the currency markets, spending U.S. dollars to buy Canadian dollars in an effort to increase their value. By week's end Canada's dollar was back up to 71.07 cents...
...knit communities, they have been shunned for their disputed link to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and often misunderstood for the practice of voodoo that many of them brought along from the old country. Even so, the immigration wave has continued. Indeed, the latest group arrived off the coast of Florida last Friday, just hours before Duvalier fled Haiti...
...Miami Flower Exchange: "You walk into a supermarket, see the flowers, and they're attractive and inexpensive. You grab a bottle of wine for $2.99. What's $2.99 more for a nice bouquet of flowers?" Trying to cash in on impulse purchases, 7-Eleven convenience stores in South Florida sell single long-stemmed roses alongside the soft drinks and beer...
Highlighting his absence on campus the day of the Martin Luther King holiday--the president was fundraising 2500 miles away in Florida--Joseph Leake, head of the Dartmouth Afro-American Society, lays much of the blame for the campus' current strife directly on the president. "McLaughlin's lack of leadership caused the escalation," Leake says...