Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fort Lauderdale...
Nipping at the heels of the big papers is a pack of smaller dailies and even a few weeklies that compete editorially. Probably the most respected is the Fort Myers News-Press (circ. 61,000). "We don't have the resources of the Herald or the Times," says News-Press Executive Editor Ron Thornburg, "but we can make little guerrilla raids." The News-Press and the slightly larger but less ambitious Cocoa Today are owned by the giant Gannett chain. The Lakeland Ledger (circ. 50,000) has probably surpassed the Gainesville Sun (circ. 42,000) as editorial leader...
...virtue shared by leading papers of all sizes is stern pursuit of wrongdoers, aided by Florida's open-government laws. A Miami Herald probe of drug smuggling in the Florida Keys last year resulted in the resignation of a state attorney. The Fort Myers News-Press disclosed that a $1 million road plan benefited only the would-be developer of a housing tract; the road project was canceled. In an unusual joint venture, the Herald, St. Petersburg Times and Orlando Sentinel Star are spending $75,000 to computerize records of every contribution of $50 or more to candidates...
...invited to the conference, "now bears the Soviet and Cuban trademark, which means that it will attempt to spread the virus [of Marxism] among its neighbors." Then the President got away to relax at the empty nine-room Barbadian villa of Paul Brandt, a furniture manufacturer from Fort Worth. (Colbert's home was too small...
...first to settle among the penguins, though, were French colonists organized by Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who wrote mournfully of the "vast silence broken only by the occasional cry of a sea monster." The French were building a tiny fort in Port Louis on East Falkland in 1764; the British reappeared the next year and began creating a settlement in West Falkland called Port Egmont...