Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gambling for a dying resort...
Weiner has already set up a makeshift office in the Marco Polo Resort on Collins Avenue, where many of Miami Beach's hotels are clustered. Under the banner of a LET'S HELP FLORIDA committee, the campaign to collect signatures will begin in two weeks, with a July 31 deadline...
...made, we can win." The idea's biggest selling point may be that gambling would be limited to a strip of about 20 miles along Florida's Gold Coast -where the hotelmen and others in a once lucrative tourist market see legalized gambling as their last resort...
...year economy has not grown at all since 1975, when it rose a meager .6%. Unemployment, says the government of Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, runs at 11%, but unofficial estimates put it at twice that much. It has fallen upon the government to become the employer of last resort, and since late last year Torrijos has created 22,000 new jobs, mostly make-work. Inflation, mercifully, has dropped from 30% in 1974 to less than 10%, and a new sales tax added some $35 million to government coffers last year. But the $432 million budget (9% of it allotted...
...fact that these farmers, who are probably among the most conservative Americans, feel the need to resort to violence means, to me, that they must be in dire straits, or nearly so. They have their backs against a wall, a wall of failure. They have nothing more to lose than their farms, and since they will lose those anyway if the cost-price squeeze continues; there is nothing preventing them from following through on their threat, and plowing under their fields. The Farmer's Creed reveals their desperation: "We the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful; have done...