Word: florida
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...Paffenbarger, who is at Stanford University's medical school, found that men who walked briskly nine or more miles a week had a 21% lower risk of death from heart disease than those who walked less than three miles a week. Michael Pollock, director of the University of Florida's exercise-science center, recommends exercising at an intensity of 60% to 90% of maximum heart rate for up to an hour. However, notes the physiologist, who wrote the American College of Sports Medicine's Guidelines for Fitness in Healthy Adults, "if you choose more moderate training, you'll have...
...paroled from a California jail last month after serving nearly eight years of a 14-year four-month sentence. But Singleton, a model prisoner who maintains his innocence, immediately found himself to be a pariah, staying in a string of motels as authorities tried in vain in California, Florida and Nevada to find a welcoming town...
...Florida Governor Bob Martinez thought he had discovered that politician's dream, a painless tax increase. Last April 23 he signed a law that extended the reach of the state's 5% sales tax to cover everything from legal services to pest control to credit collection. The new levies were intended to raise about $700 million a year, including some $100 million from a tax on advertisers, both in state and out. But while the Governor's constituents have greeted the measures with passive acceptance, Martinez has run into a wave of prickly Madison Avenue opposition that has turned...
...general, Florida's levy breaks no new ground. Similar service taxes already exist in New Mexico, Iowa and South Dakota. The Sunshine State's law, however, contains one major difference: any national advertiser whose message reaches Florida by way of print, radio or television must pay a state sales tax based on Florida's share of the advertiser's total audience. Thus if NBC- TV receives $400,000 in revenues for a 30-second commercial on, say, The Cosby Show, and if Florida viewers account for 5% of the national television audience, then a Cosby advertiser would have...
...advertising industry is outraged. "It's like taxation without representation," fumes Peter Diamandis, president of CBS Magazines. "If this were 1776," he says, "we'd be pouring tea into the Fort Lauderdale harbor." Instead, opponents have been pouring antitax messages into Martinez's political bailiwick. The Florida Association of Broadcasters has produced a 30-second television commercial attacking the tax as inflationary and providing the Governor's phone number for citizens who would like to complain personally. In addition, a number of media companies, including NBC, CBS and Time Inc., have canceled plans to hold conferences and conventions in Florida...