Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the Dow at 1800." Manhattan Financier Asher Edelman has spent $72 million since late August to accumulate 11.5% of Foster Wheeler, a New Jersey-based construction company; much of the buying came as the firm's stock tumbled, from $21 to $11.25, amid the crash. Paul Bilzerian, a Florida investor who has made more than $50 million in profits since 1985 from corporate raids against such firms as Allied Stores and Hammermill Paper, is mulling a run at Singer...
Vellucci's supporters included George Rose, who said he had flown back from his retirement home in Fort Myers, Florida in order to help Vellucci's campaign. Last night he was cheerfully holding up a campaign placard outside the Miller's River Apartments in the heart of East Cambridge...
...headed for Main Street Heritage USA--a row of pastel storefronts covered with Christmas bulbs and American flags. In the toy store I pressed the tummy of a $25 doll, and it praised Jesus. The plastic Armor of God, manufactured by Praise Unlimited of Sarasota, Florida, was available at a more moderate price. And I found a real bargain at the drug store sale--"Tammy Faye for President" buttons, for only 99 cents...
...attorneys will argue that jurors could have perceived that the victim, who has since died in a Florida car crash, was more credible because cameras weren't allowed to focus...
...program's climax: the opening of the safe, a stunt that will inevitably be compared with TV Correspondent Geraldo Rivera's much ridiculed 1986 on-camera opening of Al Capone's empty "vault" in Chicago (a show also produced by Westgate). After filing unsuccessfully to block the broadcast, Florida Investor Michael Harris and four coplaintiffs are suing Westgate and other investors for $300 million, claiming they were cheated out of a share of the profits...