Word: florida
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...wanted Laxalt to stay put on Capitol Hill. The G.O.P. is concerned that defeats in the 1986 elections could erase the party's current 53-47 Senate majority. While the Republicans must defend 22 seats on the ballot next year, the Democrats have only twelve seats at risk. In Florida, South Dakota, Idaho and Washington, Democrats hope to win seats now held by the G.O.P. They feel that the large blocs of registered Democrats in New York and Pennsylvania will help them unseat Republican incumbents in those states. In addition, the G.O.P. may lose Senate races in North Carolina, where...
...confidence after President Reagan's landslide re-election, the Republican Party last spring launched an ambitious drive to persuade Democratic voters to switch their party affiliation. Dubbing their plan Operation Open Door, Republican National Committee leaders hoped to win 100,000 converts in 100 days in four target states: Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Last week R.N.C. Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf declared the operation "a remarkable success" that indicated a growing political realignment in the U.S. More remarkable was the way the R.N.C. compiled its totals. In Florida, the Republicans claimed to have won 28,064 defectors, a respectable number...
...first time, the majority of Americans lived in the South and West. During the 1970s, California, Florida and Texas had 42% of the U.S.'s total growth...
Once they are all settled, the movie loses steam. It is reduced to a series of Jack's clashes with the lobster restaurant's very special customer who, at least in his own mind, is somewhat of a big deal around Citrus Grove, Florida...
...course Jack knows little about sailing before arriving in Florida (he crashed into his landlord's boat the first day out), but through a friendship he develops with an of pirate with a hook arm, he learns the ways of the seas...