Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mornings Fran Markham used to conduct an exercise class. The view looked down the channel to the Atlantic Ocean and across to Boot Key, a tangled thicket of low-lying mangrove. The harbor is one of the few protected anchorages on the ocean side of the Florida Keys; it has been a major stop for anyone cruising to the Bahamas...
...traveler, who usually sees only a six-mile treeless stretch of U.S. Highway 1, where bars and cheap shopping malls are chaotically assembled under the glaring sun, lined up with occasional fading signs offering time-share condo developments. It is hard to earn a living legally in the Florida Keys, and the local residents hold two firm contradictory beliefs: 1) zoning and planning are outrageous interferences with free enterprise, and 2) mentioning aloud the less than salubrious effects of noninterference might discourage tourists and is therefore something close to unpatriotic...
...THEURER printed on it. By that time, a lot of people were so upset they threw the fruit overboard. One morning, very early, he appeared on a spit of land across from the marina with a crew and some bulldozers and began tearing out mangroves, which are protected in Florida. The sheriff arrived and stopped...
Around 700 people a day are now moving into Florida, and the state is caught in an inexorable conflict between progress and indigestion. At Boot Key, almost everyone decided the crunch had caught them. "All he had to do was tell us what he was planning," said a former regular Tuesday afternoon bridge player. "But not only could we not get a commitment, we felt intimidated." The camaraderie of a community had been destroyed. The exodus began...
...answered A or B, you should turn in your bursar's card to the nearest authority figure--you obviously came to Harvard for all the wrong reasons. While Harvard cannot claim to host the kind of campus-wide revelry found at a Florida State or a USC, the much-vaunted Harvard diversity makes up in quality what its parties lack in size...