Word: florida
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...states that failed -- Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia -- must take certain steps by year's end. One requirement in Virginia, for example, will be to complete buildings already under construction at some all-black campuses, while Georgia must develop a plan to encourage students at a largely white junior college to transfer to a traditionally black...
...people 65 and over made up just 7.7% of the population. Now the number is up to 12%, and it will reach 17.3% by 2020. Fastest growing of all is the group 85 and over. By 1995 the population of the average U.S. town will look like Florida's population today...
...just that the elderly are living longer, healthier lives. They are living them differently. Look around the Sunbelt. Florida, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada have some of the country's fastest-growing populations of those over 65. In some places it seems a wholly different, more leisurely universe, full of choices and passions long delayed. There is Hulda Crooks, 91, who has climbed 97 mountains since she turned 65, most recently Mount Fuji in Japan. And Dentist James Jay, 74, who finished, along with 51 other septuagenarians and four octogenarians, that 26-mile ribbon of pain, the New York City...
...example, the state of Indiana argued that if the census count were adjusted in a more accurate fashion, such as according to Rubin's methods, it would have received an additional seat in the House of Representatives and Florida would have lost a space...
When President Bok returned from Florida earlier this month, he found eight letters on his desk. The contents, according to Bok, did not include any stunning revelations or undiscovered scandals...