Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlikeable guy; he's like an animated buffer zone. Eva, played with unself-conscious allure by Eszter Balint (formerly of the Hungarian Squat Theatre), is the film's discoverer of America. Her rare moments of enthusiasm are moments of anticipation: when she finally gets "there" (New York, Florida, Ohio) she basically discovers the meaning of disappointment. As four guide for the day, she points to a scene with an iron fence and a snowstorm and says, "Well, this is it. Eake Erie. It's kind of a drag here really." When Eva realizes that this is as good...
Other beneficiaries of this large-scale Congressional wheedling include Florida State University, which nabbed a hefty $7 million to start construction on a new supercomputer facility, and Catholic University, which walked off with $8.9 million for a laboratory...
...effects of last week's cold snap quickly abated in much of the U.S., but Florida's citrus growers may never be the same. The freeze was the worst in history for the state's orange and grapefruit industry. Temperatures that dropped to the low teens destroyed as much as 40% of this year's crop. Coming on top of a $1 billion freeze in late 1983 and the citrus-canker epidemic in 1984, the icy blast destroyed the last hopes of some farmers in north-central Florida that they could survive in the business. Crops are smaller...
Prices for fresh fruit will increase, but the cost of orange juice to U.S. consumers is not likely to rise much. Reason: most of it is made from concentrate imported from Brazil. The cold snap will affect fresh vegetable prices as well. About 60% of Florida's tomato crop was destroyed, and many fields of beans and squash were left brown and lifeless...
...record-setting arctic cold wave gripped much of the country from the Midwest to Florida last week, the plight of the nation's homeless once again became painfully apparent. Authorities and private citizens scrambled against nature's bitter blast to protect those least able to protect themselves. Even as the U.S. economy booms, so, perversely, does the number of homeless. Experts put the figure as low as 300,000 and as high as nearly 2 million. Certainly the homeless have become more noticeable as they shamble through bus depots, sleep on steam grates and occasionally die in public. The nation...