Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beaches, hundreds of thousands of them, bikinis and libidos at the ready. After a week of the unimaginable and the unmentionable (to parents), spending up to $300 million on their bacchanal, they return to their college campuses, survivors of spring break. Says Dave Mazur, a Canisius College freshman: "Fort Lauderdale is like Mecca. You have to make the trip at least once. It's what everybody says it is --beaches, beer and bikinis . . . sand, surf...
lege students who make the annual spring-break pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale from turning the event into the usual brawling bacchanal, authorities this year are trying to fence them in and dry them out. One new feature is a half- mile-long stretch of 4 1/2-ft.-high concrete and chain-link wall, which separates the beach crowds from heavily trafficked Route A1A. Another is a so-called open-container law, which separates seasonal hell raisers from their booze by banning drinking in the beach area...
Most credit-counseling services offer extensive financial advice. Says G. Bennett Perry, associate director of Credit Counselors Corp., a Fort Lauderdale-based firm: "We go over the entire budget, from rent to haircuts." Debtors are advised to keep a written record of all their expenditures and to refrain, under any circumstances, from borrowing more money...
...involve American forces, the Pentagon has already established a foothold in Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras, where U.S. troops have been conducting maneuvers since 1983. A $30 million network of air bases, intelligence posts, radar stations and other installations has been built, and last week 96 engineers from the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into Honduras to begin work on a 4,700-ft. runway within 25 miles of the Nicaraguan border...
...England college students, the pilgrimage to Freeport is now fast becoming the weekend equivalent of Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale...