Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, the seven-team, round robin tournament offered a change from the usual Spring Break trip to Florida. Instead of playing a couple of college games, and facing Red Sox minor leaguers, the Crimson got a chance to square off against the best in college baseball...
Arms-control advocates, church groups and nuclear-freeze organizations reject the President's reasoning, and they mounted an intense campaign to turn wavering Senators against the MX. Florida Senator Paula Hawkins, for example, received some 1,500 pieces of mail, largely against the missile, in the three days before the vote. For its part, the Administration enlisted its entire legislative affairs staff, Cabinet secretaries and notables like Henry Kissinger to argue its cause. Said one White House staffer: "We just could not afford to lose...
...money, the bank holiday disrupted thousands of lives. "The thing that's breaking my heart," says Paulette Lotspeich, a Cincinnati substitute teacher and mother of three, "is that my husband and I were going to go on a trip by ourselves for the first time in 14 years, to Florida. That's over now. We can't afford to go." Many businesses tried to help out the cashless consumers. Some grocery chains continued to accept checks drawn on the thrifts. Nonetheless, many depositors ran short of money for such necessities as medical care and gasoline...
Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida, a dedicated foe of what he terms "the imperial former presidency," introduced legislation last year that would phase out protection for former Presidents five years after they leave office. He would also like to limit what the Government chips in for presidential libraries and for ex-Chief Executives' offices and staffs. Says Chiles: "I think President Nixon's announcement is the best news we've had. His example is a good one for other past Presidents to follow, but we need to make it law." A spokesman for Ford said the ex-President anticipates that...
...kind of class warfare has broken out between some pricey drug attorneys and their prosecutor peers, who tend to regard such lawyers, honest or dishonest, with indiscriminate contempt. At a recent Florida meeting attended by 200 drug defense lawyers, one attorney denounced harassing prosecutors as "young scumheads." A speaker at the conference, Howard Weitzman, the highly regarded defender of John De Lorean, said that many prosecutors are simply vindictive: "You're driving the Mercedes; they're driving the Chevy Nova. You're everything they want...