Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pachon said that if the presidential contest this year is a close one, Hispanics could gain more power by controlling swing votes in California, Texas, and Florida. But certain structural problems could prevent the community from fulfilling its possible role in the election, Pachon said...
...temporary ban was imposed in 1984 to halt an epidemic of canker, a deadly plant disease. In response to the end of the ban, Texas declared a 30- day embargo on Florida imports to allow time to make a case that canker remains a threat. Florida growers, who sold $25 million worth of citrus in the banned states in the 1983-84 season, aim to challenge the Texas embargo in court...
...upkeep of their house and gardens. She tells Pearl, a Yale undergraduate who is spending a year abroad at Oxford, to avoid English homosexuals and "to concentrate on nice normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living in Florida of financial imprudence and of ruining her skin in the sun: "I was shocked to see how brown you were. You looked dyed, frankly, and with your tinted hair the effect was honestly bizarre...
...that seemed to stump Dole on a recent Sunday talk show was what he did in his spare time. The Senator finally listed reading newspapers and magazines, and watching TV news shows. Almost as an afterthought, he added having dinner with his wife. When the Doles travel to their Florida apartment, they socialize little and participate in few activities other than tanning by themselves. When Bush and his wife go to Florida to visit their son, they see old friends and political leaders. Bush likes to pursue his hobbies, which tend to be of the upper-class sort, such...
...that the document "does not fully reflect my priorities," the President said, "I am adhering to the bipartisan budget agreement and keeping my part of the bargain. I ask Congress to do the same." The lawmakers seemed ready to cooperate. "I think it's a good-faith budget," said Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee. "It looks like it meets the summit agreements...