Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behalf of the Republican Party in 1985. The G.O.P. threw a bash in April just to celebrate her change of registration. Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf plans to showcase Kirkpatrick in a $100,000 campaign to convert Democrats in four states with potentially close Senate races next year (Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Louisiana). Last Friday 1,000 Republicans paid $50 a plate to hear her address a dinner in Des Moines; counting others who put up $1,000 each to meet her at a private reception, her appearances raised more than $100,000. Her speech sounded like...
...York Mets Manager Davey Johnson is at the mound telling Gooden to walk Pedro Guerrero, who earlier hit a home run. Mapping tactics with the infielders, Johnson has scarcely a word for Gooden, the 6-ft. 3-in. centerpiece of the team. He is a slender stalk from Florida, a righthander. Even in repose, the impression of him is mostly arms and legs. As long ago as last November, he was a teenager...
From Yankees fleeing the northern cold to Asian walking catfish to South ; American water hyacinths, southern Florida has suffered through many invasions by persistent foreigners threatening to displace native flora and fauna. The vulnerable peninsula, devasted last month by wide-ranging brush fires, continues to be under attack, this time by alien trees: the Brazilian pepper and the Australian pine and Melaleuca, all amazingly prolific and fast spreading. Laments Julia Morton, a University of Miami botanist: "These trees are entirely too healthy. They don't have natural enemies here...
...often true, the incursion of aliens was abetted and, in some cases, initiated by well-intentioned but misguided horticulturists. When the Australian pine (Casuarina equisetifolia) gained a foothold in Florida around 1920, landscapers adopted it as a windbreak and hedge. Casuarina rapidly established itself at the edges of canal banks and natural waterways; along the southwest coast of the 1.5 million-acre Everglades National Park, the pine's shallow roots are now so dense that they are destroying the sandy beaches on which the threatened loggerhead sea turtle lays its eggs...
...even greater menace is the Brazilian pepper, or Schinus terebinthifolius. While visiting Brazil in 1926, Physician and Plant Lover George Stone was attracted by its thick clusters of red berries and brought back seeds for his garden in Punta Gorda, on Florida's southwest Gulf coast. The tree proliferated with the aid of casual gardeners, landscapers and birds (which feasted on the berries and spread seeds across the peninsula...