Word: florida
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Ironically, the Hopkins case has arrived at the high court at around the same time a related but different dispute may be heading toward a courtroom in Florida. Until recently, Brenda Taylor was an assistant state attorney in Broward County, Fla. But earlier this year she was reprimanded by her boss, John Countryman, because of the clothes she favored for court appearances. Taylor, 25, has a penchant for short skirts, designer blouses, ornate jewelry and spike heels with colored hosiery. She says she has a flair for fashion. Countryman told her she looked like a "bimbo." In September, after Taylor...
...State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer argued that prosecuting the Marcoses would make it more difficult to offer protective deals to other foreign leaders who have been helpful to the U.S. Earlier this year, the Reagan Administration offered to drop two federal drug indictments brought against Manuel Noriega in Florida if he would leave Panama. Now, says a Noriega confidant, the drug-running general "is telling everybody that this shows he was smart...
...fashioned field with a single deck of stands encircling the diamond, Yale Field could just as well be a spring training park for a major league club in Florida. A line of trees lie behind the outfield fence, isolating the park from the rest of Yale...
...reports Leonce Picot, owner of the Down Under and Casa Vecchia in Fort Lauderdale, La Vieille Maison in Boca Raton and the Old House in Monterey, Calif. Ten years ago, only 25% to 30% of diners in his restaurants ordered dessert. Now, says Picot, as many as 70% of Florida customers and 80% of those in California are indulging. Boston's Ritz-Carlton hotel and Shaw's Crab House in Chicago confirm the trend: dessert sales at both are up about 15% over last year...
...administrator of a Florida psychiatric hospital stares blankly into the television camera as the reporter bores in on him. "What kind of degree does your admissions clerk have?" asks the correspondent, who has already shown us how the hospital readily admits children for extended stays. "I'm not really sure," responds the administrator wanly. "Well, yesterday I looked," the reporter says. "He wasn't a nurse. He wasn't a doctor. Isn't that a little strange...