Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South Florida--the strip between Miami and West Palm Beach--is very strange. There are lots of old people there. Many are paranoid, big-mouthed, incredibly pushy New York Jews. Even worse, their bodily fluids have been dried up from spending too much time lying under the tropical sun and complaining about the havoc other people's grandchildren are wreaking on the shuffleboard equipment, baking their brains into blackened rocks. You get the Picture...
...completely identical buildings to house the old people. They also generally have imposing walls and gates staffed by crack walkie-talkie-toting octogenarian security forces. Grandma assures me this is to provide protection from the hordes of degenerate muggers and rapists who swarm around South Florida after the sun sets...
...apparently make daily survival there a tenuous proposition at best. Armies of red "fire ants" gleefully attack those unlucky enough to step on their hills; their bites could (in those with the proper allergies) cause Death, according to the newspaper article she cut out on the subject. The blazing sun causes blistering skin cancer of the most painful sort in those not properly protected with sunscreen...
...said whether he will face any charges at all. But the authorities have moved to overhaul the exchange's management. Li had given up the title of chairman in December because of a rule limiting him to two consecutive one-year terms. Now he and his closest associates, including Sun and Tsang, have been excluded from the exchange's reorganized governing committee. Some Hong Kong traders were concerned about how the market would react to Li's arrest. Investors, however, seemed to applaud the government's crackdown. Last week the Hang Seng index rose 6.5%, to 2452.52, though it still...
...circled the globe in his leased Hawker Siddeley 125 jet, making arrangements for new productions and spot-checking the quality level of old ones. "I have been all over the world until I hardly know what time of day it is," he says. It doesn't matter: the sun never sets on this new British empire...