Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witness chair, sat the prosecution's man, a tall, imperious figure with a shaved head, who gave every bit as good as he got. In its seventh week the trial of Patty Hearst turned into a sarcastic duel between F. Lee Bailey and Dr. Joel Fort, the quirky, combative witness for the prosecution. Doggedly, almost desperately, Bailey strove to discredit Fort, and for good reason. With the jurors out of the room, Bailey acknowledged that if the seven women and five men accepted what Fort had to say about Patty, "that would be the end of the case...
...replied Fort, and Bailey leaped to his feet, objecting strenuously that the witness was trying to give the jurors his opinion on "the ultimate issue of this case...
...canal and have started work on a $33,000 house. Terms: 20% down and a 6.5% mortgage. "It would have cost twice that to build the same house in New York City," says Kraujalis. So many other people have discovered Cape Coral and nearby communities that the Fort Myers area, of which it is a part, is the nation's fastest-rising community. Since 1970, population has grown more than...
Temple, Texas, is another fast-growing community. Sixty plants have opened in the area, in part because the city (pop. 41,500) lies at the hub of a wheel with spokes extending to Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Some of the residents there feel as if they are part of a migration within a migration. "My wife would slit her throat if we had to move back to Houston," says Gene Bishoff, manager of the 700,000-sq.-ft. Western Auto Supply distribution center. At first she did not want to leave Houston, where they had lived...
...developer cities" just to the west of Fort Lauderdale have encountered the dark underside of extravagant growth. The recent recession slowed the boom, leaving the skeletons of half-completed communities and a number of bankrupt builders. Now, says Fort Lauderdale Mayor E. Clay Shaw, "we have gone to enforced land-use planning at the county level. We've put population caps on certain areas. We've stopped bargaining among landowners. There have been some building moratoriums because of overworked sewerage facilities...