May 24, 2013
Business Florida
The Money Myth
By now, everyone knows about the havoc wreaked by derivative securities on U.S. businesses and municipalities in the past 18 months or so, even though explaining how derivatives work can...
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Published on 7/1/1995
So You Want To Publish A Newsletter
In 1987, Don Causey approached New York publishing giant Bantam Doubleday Dell with an idea to start a subscription newsletter targeting sport fishermen. Thousands of weekend anglers, Causey reasoned, would...
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Published on 7/1/1995
Tears Of The Crocodile
Tallahassee lawmakers and lobbyists rail against bureaucracy - but quietly work to keep it tightly in place. Watch what they do, not what they say.
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Published on 6/1/1995
New In Fort Lauderdale
Start-ups on Las Olas Boulevard and elsewhere enrich the city's collection of restaurants.
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Published on 6/1/1995
Rules
Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream. - H.M.S. Pinafore
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Published on 6/1/1995
Detecting Tax Dodgers With Trade Data
Two Florida International University finance professors have developed a computer program to identify trade goods whose prices appear manipulated to avoid U.S. taxes. The professors, John Zdanowicz and Simon Pak,...
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Published on 6/1/1995
Around the State
FloridaMore than 100 Florida independent drug stores filed suit against 29 major drug makers including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ciba-Geigy and Eli Lilly & Co, claiming the manufacturers violated antitrust laws by...
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Published on 6/1/1995
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Tourism ForecastIn your April edition of Florida Trend magazine, you reported, "The [Florida] Department of Commerce optimistically projects that the total number of visitors to Florida will rebound in 1995...
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Published on 6/1/1995
Wireless World
Latin America's telecommunications industry is playing technological catch-up through cellular and satellite developments.
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Published on 6/1/1995
Raising The Risks of Securities Fraud
Charles V. Senatore became the top securities regulator in the Southeast in March 1994, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission tapped him to head one of five new regional headquarters, in Miami, where Senatore supervises a staff of 120.
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Published on 6/1/1995
Lease-a-Worker
After years of scandal, Florida's employee leasing industry is thriving by changing the employer-worker relationship at small and medium-sized businesses.
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Published on 6/1/1995
The Bud Paxson Show
In 1977, Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson owned a struggling AM radio station in St. Petersburg. Tight on money and up against pay day, he visited an advertiser who was late...
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Published on 6/1/1995
The Shipping News
"Location, location, location" is a maxim of the real estate industry. Lately, however, it better explains Florida's new role in international trade. Last December's Summit of the Americas marked the...
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Published on 6/1/1995
