Word: florida
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...mail from Willey, a source told TIME. In one message, she asked him to buy a $1,500 table at a USO dinner (Clinton had appointed her to the USO board) and escort her. In another, she described herself as "all stressed out" and asked if he had a Florida retreat she could use. In a third, she invited him to accompany her to the Turks and Caicos Islands and inquired about hotel recommendations. At first blush, the calls might be seen as the importunings of a debt-ridden, glamour-seeking widow--an image prevalent in her hometown of Richmond...
...among the clerks that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was so peeved at Justice William Brennan for having "hoodwinked" her in a case that she refused to join any of his later majority opinions. And he says Justice John Paul Stevens spent so much of the winter in his Florida condo that he "became the FedEx Justice...
Despite the rapid mergers of existing banks, more and more new ones are being launched. The number of applications for community bank charters has quadrupled, from 49 in 1994 to more than 200 last year, with much of the activity coming in states like Florida and California, where giant banks predominate. "The large banks just don't do a very good job of serving the niche that community banks have," says Bob Colvin, a banking expert for Sheshunoff Information Services...
...January 1997, he waited barely a year to announce a $15.5 billion deal to buy Barnett. Then he backed away from a pledge to cut $450 million out of Barnett's costs this year because of difficulty digesting the earlier acquisition. Nonetheless, NationsBank is shedding 200 branches in Florida (including 124 that state regulators have ordered it to divest) and reducing the merged workforce from 30,000 to 22,000. Gleeful local rivals have launched an ad blitz that analysts say could persuade about 10% of Barnett's customers to switch their accounts...
...Florida--the Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast and Okefenokee interior seemingly smushed into one town--where the natives are bathed in swamp sweat, among other unguents. Dreamboat high school guidance counselor Matt Dillon is accused of rape by a student, rich-bitch Denise Richards. Did he do it? And did he also do Campbell, a Druidic outcast with nary a kind word for Richards? That is the mystery facing detective Kevin Bacon, who has his own baroque agenda. Fair play forbids further disclosure of the labyrinthine connivery on display or of the detective's dirty secrets. Let's just...