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Word: florida (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selling soft drink, which has only about one-third less caffeine than coffee, as the eye-opener of choice. Billboards and radio commercials in Atlanta, New Orleans and Knoxville urge people to have "a Coke in the morning." Local bottlers echo the theme in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin and Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Ahh, That Cup Of . . . Coke? | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...that attitude by creating a so-called wealth effect in which stockholders feel rich on paper. The catch is that home values and stock prices can fluctuate, often cruelly, even though their growth seems so dependable during some periods. Says John Godfrey, chief economist for Barnett Banks of Florida: "If the stock-market crash did anything, it showed us that we can't count on that value being there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting The Urge to Splurge | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Santas wrote poems and shopped furiously to prepare for this week's gift-giving. One inventive Santa based his gifts on current events, including the recent prison revolts in Florida and Louisiana. "He gave the men working at the grill gingerbread men and made his Santee go down to the grill and demand their release," said Michael T. Horvath '88 of Kirkland House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Secret Santas Hit Harvard's Chimneys | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

Jach Pursel, a former Florida insurance agent living in Los Angeles, squints his eyes and speaks with the voice of Lazaris, a spiritual entity of uncertain origins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...George Shultz grandly staged their own truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir of bitterness" against the Speaker. Some of that is normal in the election season, but it seemed to go beyond all bounds last week when Georgia's Newt Gingrich stormed through Florida calling Wright a "genuinely corrupt man" and comparing him to Mussolini. Even given Gingrich's right-wing fervor, that is startling stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Speaker's Itch for Power | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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