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Business has blossomed for dealers in floral products in recent years. U.S. retail sales of cut flowers have increased from $2.9 billion in 1981 to $3.7 billion in 1985. Revenues for FTD, the long-distance delivery network, have been growing by more than 10% annually, reaching $551 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunny Days for Flower Sales | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...fighting had stopped. After being pulled over in Washington D.C. for driving in the car pool lane, he claimed Congressional immunity from arrest, attracting deservedly sarcastic press attention. Next came accusations of payroll padding, and finally the disclosure that in 1977 Jepsen had been a member of Leisure Spa Ftd, Patronized by some of Iowa's political and business leaders, the "Spa" was reputedly Iowa's best brothel until closed by the police. Jepsen offered three differing explanations for the Spa incident before lapsing into indignant silence, but he has protested that this episode was before he was "born again...

Author: By Cvrus M. Sanai, | Title: Down and Dirty | 11/3/1984 | See Source »

...late at night. You're alone in your room. There's a knock at the door. You open it to find an FTD delivery man holding a bouquet of flowers. He reaches into his pocket and nonchalantly pulls out a blue water pistol. "You're dead," he says...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Mccarthy and Leslie J. Smith, S | Title: 70 Students to Play Assassin As 'Killer' Begins at Harvard | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

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