Word: forte
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...office-space surplus is rapidly spreading to other cities. Vacancy rates are reaching alarming levels in Fort Lauderdale (28.3%), Phoenix (24%), New Orleans (22.7%) and other Sunbelt cities, where the strong economic growth of recent years fanned real estate speculation. As soon as one city is glutted, developers move on to the next. Says Mack Taylor, an Atlanta developer: "When they realized the game was over in Denver and Houston, a lot of them came here...
...were only a matter of law, the public would not feel stranded. He killed her, after all. Roswell Gilbert, a 76-year-old retired electronics engineer living in a seaside condominium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., considered murdering his wife Emily for at least a month before shooting her through the head with Luger as she sat on their couch. The Gilberts had been husband and wife for 51 years. They were married in 1934, the year after Calvin Coolidge died, the year after Prohibition was lifted, the year that Hank Aaron was born. At 73, Emily had Alzheimer's disease...
Besides, the matter of mercy killing is getting rough and out of hand. Nobody seems to use poison anymore. In Fort Lauderdale two years ago, a 79-year-old man shot his 62-year-old wife in the stairwell of a hospital; like Emily Gilbert, she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. In San Antonio four years ago, a 69-year-old man shot his 72-year-old brother to death in a nursing home. Last June a man in Miami put two bullets in the heart of his three-year-old daughter who lay comatose after a freak accident...
...John Walker Jr. will be eligible for parole in ten years. What kind of justice is that for a man who would sell his country to the Soviets? The death penalty would be a more deserved alternative. Richard G. Brody Fort Collins, Colo...
...Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there was an unusual last-minute hitch. An undisclosed number of the elite counterterrorist troops were under investigation for in effect cheating on their expense accounts, and had to get a special dispensation from the Pentagon to leave their home base at Fort Bragg...