Word: florida
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...golf team will be traveling to compete in a tournament in Florida next spring...
Only two Category 5 hurricanes have hit the United States--a 1935 storm that killed 600 people in Florida, and Hurricane Camille, which devastated the Mississippi coast in 1969 and killed 256 people...
After supporting Panama's General Manuel Noriega for nearly five years, the Reagan Administration turned against him last February, when the swaggering strongman was indicted on drug-smuggling charges by two Florida grand juries. Since then Washington has tried and failed to force Noriega out with economic sanctions and to shift power to a civilian government headed by ousted President Eric Arturo Delvalle. Now, it seems, the State Department is focusing on a different man and a different strategy. The man: Lieut. Colonel Eduardo Herrera Hassan, a 20-year veteran of the Panamanian Defense Forces and a former Ambassador...
...further annoyance to Republicans was the brief revival of unsubstantiated speculation that Quayle flirted with Parkinson during a Florida golf outing in 1980. That half-forgotten episode, getting new currency because of a Playboy story to be published soon, aroused gossip about a variety of capers. According to notes taken by her lawyers during a 1981 FBI interrogation, Parkinson told federal agents that Quayle propositioned her. "Quayles ((sic)) made a pass," read the handwritten notes, made available last week by Washington Attorney Glenn Lewis. "Said would like to sleep with you. Said no -- I'm ((with)) Tom. Quayles only...
...drop its policy of transferring out seropositive patients from its Wilmington hospital. Municipalities have also been using their antidiscrimination ordinances. In New York City last March, an administrative judge awarded $26,647 to a man who was refused treatment by his longtime dental clinic. Some states, including California, Florida, Massachusetts and Wisconsin, have laws restricting the use of AIDS tests as an employee-screening device and directing that lab results be kept confidential. Last week New York joined the list by completing action on its version of a confidentiality bill...