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Word: florida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever good sense these palliatives make, they would certainly cramp the style of some ultrarich whose money lust is tempered by an engagingly eccentric sense of how to spend their fortunes. Arthur Jones, the gruff, gun- toting inventor of Nautilus sports equipment, is laird of a Florida estate that includes a runway large enough to land his own Boeing 707; it is used, among other things, to fly in wild animals for medical research. One of them, which Jones proudly shows Packard, is a reptilian rarity: the biggest saltwater crocodile in captivity. Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buck Passing | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...started my business in Florida," he says, "because I thought I'd make a lot of money from old people who were attached to their pets. But they're mostly into cremation and burial. They're afraid of new ideas. Most of my customers are younger, in their 20s, with no kids, from the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinellas Park, Florida. Freeze-Dried Memories: Pets | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

BUNDY was one of the most gruesome serial killers in memory. In 1980 he was convicted of the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. Leach had been abducted, mutilated, slain and abandoned in a pig sty. In 1979, Bundy was found guilty of the murders of two Florida State students, whom he bludgeoned and strangled in their sorority house. All told, Bundy was suspected of over 30 murders in Florida and the Pacific Northwest...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Bundy's Message | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...founding member and past president of the Republican National Lawyers Association, Hope's clients have included Missouri Pacific Railroad and Air Florida, as well as actress Brooke Shields and the family of the late billionaire J. Paul Getty. Her billings reportedly account for nearly half the business generated by her firm's Washington office...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: New Member is Top Washington Insider | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...issue itself. A giant poster of last year's SI cover girl Elle Macpherson has been hanging in the window of Out of Town News for the past week. The last issue to command such attention was not about the Olympics but featured Elle's 1988 photo session in Florida...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: Swimming Through the Sleaze | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

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