Word: florida
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Enter Congressman Bill Chappell, a Florida Democrat, who introduced a measure to allow importation of the M-1s. Chappell contends that a check of the rifles' serial numbers shows that they were sold, not given, to the Koreans. The Congressman said he was trying to help a business that has been victimized by an overly restrictive interpretation of the law. Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio objected that Chappell's bill was "designed to help one group of people make millions...
...this may seem a far cry from Walt Disney's original conception. But in a deeper sense, it may be its ultimate realization. For if the Disney parks of Florida and California offer squeaky-clean visions of a perfect society, the Disneyland that flourishes in Tokyo is even cleaner and more utopian. Yet even as the Japanese version reproduces virtually every feature of its American models, it turns them into something entirely Japanese. Melvin, Buff and Max, the antlered commentators at the Country Bear Jamboree, speak in the grave basso profundos of Kurosawa samurai. Alice in Wonderland has Oriental features...
Some shoppers will be startled by Sweet's roster: it fails to mention Bloomingdale's or Neiman-Marcus but includes such lesser knowns as Maas Bros. in Florida and Razook's in Connecticut...
...bitterness of the Democratic establishment toward Hart is palpable. Party Chairman Paul Kirk publicly affirmed that Hart was acting selfishly and said, "Donna Rice is going to be relevant." Charles Whitehead, the Florida chairman, snapped, "If he is a candidate, I am going to Europe during the convention." Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman said, "We've got a national Gong Show anyway, and here's one more guy in a funny suit coming on the stage...
Phone companies contend that state regulations prevent them from censoring messages carried over their wires, and many courts have agreed, striking down various efforts to restrict the services. But there have been two rulings that give hope to the antiporn forces. In Arizona and Florida cases, federal appeals courts drew a distinction: government action against dial-a-porn might violate the First Amendment, they said, but as a matter of private policy, phone companies could turn away purveyors of such services...