Word: florida
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...gold was the richer prize. As with almost any commodity, however, value depends on scarcity. And these are the days of the time famine. Time that once seemed free and elastic has grown tight and elusive, and so our measure of its worth is dramatically changed. In Florida a man bills his ophthalmologist $90 for keeping him waiting an hour. In California a woman hires somebody to do her shopping for her -- out of a catalog. Twenty bucks pays someone to pick up the dry cleaning, $250 to cater dinner for four, $1,500 will buy a fax machine...
...climbing down the corporate ladder. Trading in a big salary for a lower-level job with more vacation time, flexible hours, improved maternity or paternity leave, even weekends off may seem a luxury, but it is one that many people are choosing. Dann Pottinger, 42, nephew and grandson of Florida bank presidents, was CEO of Commercial State Bank of Orlando, one of the most profitable independent banks in central Florida. This winter he chaired the search committee to select his replacement. "It is all too time-consuming," he says of his job. Pottinger has spent a total of eight days...
According to officials, Constanzo commissioned Kilroy's abduction by ordering his followers to "go out and bring in an Anglo male." Constanzo, who as a youth in South Florida reportedly practiced Santeria, the Caribbean voodoo, led the crazed rituals that accompanied the bloodletting. In the killing field, police found dozens of long candles as well as garlic, peppers and scores of half-burned cigars -- the accoutrements of an African offshoot of Santeria known as Palo Mayombe...
...Florida baseball cuts across the generation gap. There are two kinds of attractions here: adult, which means no children allowed, and family, indicating the loud presence of small people. But college students on spring break occasionally turn their beer-dousing noses away from Daytona Beach long enough to take in a game. Senior citizen Jack Keidel, who retired to Orlando some years ago and now works as a volunteer usher at Twins games, speaks for many of his peers when he says that baseball "breaks up the monotony of endless golf." A 14-year-old wearing a T shirt emblazoned...
There may be new stadiums in Florida and big microwave dishes beside them to beam games to snowbound fans back home. But so far, at least, traditionalists need not worry. As the Reds battled past the Cards a couple of weeks ago, a boy ran a ballpoint pen along the bullpen fence. Jeff Gray, a young Cincinnati reliever, smiled and started walking toward him. The boy arced his baseball over the fence, and Gray caught it easily and said, "Where do you want me to sign...