Word: florida
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...Sunbelt and smaller metropolitan areas will continue to grow most rapidly over the next 15 years. The ten large metropolitan centers (defined as those with 1 million or more people by the year 2000) whose population will increase the fastest will be in Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Nevertheless, the Snowbelt-to-Sunbelt stampede is slowing. Says Lyle Spatz, of the U.S. Census Bureau: "It's leveling off and even shifting in the Northeast. New England has shifted its economy and attracted people." The future will remain less than cheery around the Great Lakes and in some parts...
Much of the equipment from Harvard-affiliated laboratories has been moved down to Florida in preparation for the landing...
WHETHER A BIT TOO effected by their surroundings or touched by the central Florida heat, the Democratic Party chieftains who met at Walt Disney World recently indulged themselves in a fantasy that all the world's fairy dust couldn't make credible...
...Crimson's worst defeat since a 95-38 debacle at the hands of the University of Florida more than two years...
DIED. Kirby Grant, 73, stone-faced star of the 1950s television series Sky King, player in low-budget westerns and such Mountie movies as Call of the Klondike (1950) and Northwest Territory (1952), onetime radio entertainer, and lately goodwill ambassador for Cypress Gardens, an entertainment park in central Florida; in an automobile accident en route to view last week's space shuttle lift-off as an invited guest of NASA; in Titusville...