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Politics & Law
All In The Family
Who's running Florida's most successful family-owned businesses? By and large, it's men, but that may change in the next several years, according to a recent Arthur Andersen/Mass Mutual survey of...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Faraway Places
Summer is approaching. It's time to think about spicing up your expeditions with restaurants well off the beaten eaten paths. Golden Spoon winner Chalet Suzanne in Lake Wales (941/676-6011) is...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Lining Up To Revise The Constitution
Rumors are flying over highly coveted appointments to the Constitutional Revision Commission (CRC). The 37-member citizen board will be chosen this month by the governor, House speaker, Supreme Court and...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Readers
Take The High Road Regarding John Underwood's "Memo to Hollywood (Calif.)" [FT, May 1997], I doubt if Hollywood will listen. I remember when Lyndon Johnson's buddy, Jack Valenti, was tasked...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Summit
A few weeks before last month's "Presidents' Summit for America's Future," the Florida delegates to the event gathered in Tampa for a kind of one-day pep rally before leaving for...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Global Juice Strategy
On any given morning, many people in China sit down to a breakfast of rice, noodles, fried bread (like doughnuts), pickled vegetables served cold and a cup of green tea....
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Published on 5/1/1997
Getting Even
Shown on ABC's "20/20" show in 1991 to an estimated 20 million viewers, a segment entitled "Too Good To Be True" told the story of some unhappy investors holding BFC...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Degrees of Success
"Engineers can get pigeon-holed," says Dan Atkins, manager of engineering services for Columbia/HCA Healthcare's Florida group, which runs 55 hospitals as well as medical office buildings and surgery centers in...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Money Man
It's late Friday afternoon. Mel Sembler is standing behind his desk, waiting for a voice to emerge from his speakerphone. His hands are clasped by his waist and his head...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Hired Gun
William A. Brandt Jr. may be America's most flamboyant bankruptcy trustee. That may sound like an oxymoron, but anyone familiar with the sharp-tongued, wise-cracking Brandt knows differently. Since January, he's...
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Published on 5/1/1997
Players
Banking - When Florida Gator quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel, 22, decided to set up an investment account at SunTrust, the bank gave him more than money management...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Around the State
Gainesville --- North Central Florida OB-GYN Associates was bought by Purchase, N.Y. -based IntegraMed America (Nasdaq-INMD) and merged it into the Women's Medical & Diagnostic Center of Gainesville. Jacksonville ---...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Around the State
Apalachicola --- The Franklin County Commission approved zoning and land-use changes for the Gramercy Plantation - where 162 houses, 80 hotel rooms and 161,000 square feet of office space will...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Around the State
Bradenton --- NovaCare bought two Bradenton professional employee organizations, Employee Services of America, which employs 9,000, and Prostaff Human Resources with 400 employees. Pennsylvania-based NovaCare is the country's second-largest provider...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Around the State
Cape Canaveral-- - Spacehab Inc. bought Northrup Grumman subsidiary Astrotech, which provides payload processing services for commercial satellites for Kennedy Space Center and California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Heathrow ---...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Change of Venue
Companies that ship goods to foreign markets should take heed of recent court decisions that affect legal disputes between exporters and importers. The courts have ruled that such disputes must...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Around the State
Boca Raton --- CompScript (Nasdaq SmallCap-CPRX) signed a letter of intent to acquire institutional pharmacy services company Campo Medical Pharmacy of Metarie, La. CompScript provides integrated pharmacy services throughout the...
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Published on 4/1/1997
The Homefront
Responding to growing competition from firms that have moved into Boca Raton, home-grown Sachs, Sax & Klein says it's adding several attorneys and upgrading equipment. Megafirm Holland & Knight established...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Mixing Business With Pleasure
At 7:30 a.m. on a brisk February morning, a diverse group of 14 casually dressed Tampa Bay CEOs gathers for the meeting of "TEC90," one of 23 Florida groups that...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Lombardi
Most of us can recall a college professor or two whose views affected our lives. In my case it was a man named Carroll Quigley, a historian who taught a...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Triple Treat
Is it a thirst for revenge, a compelling search for the Good Life, or merely yearning for an imagined Great Gatsby past that impels more and more diners into the...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Financial Woes
When the city of Miami's financial woes hit the news last year, a lot of other Florida municipalities shared briefly in the uncomfortable spotlight. Under Florida law the state Auditor...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Readers
Editor's Note: Seldom has an article elicited reader response equal to that of John Underwood's first column for Florida Trend, "Occupied Territory" [February 1997]. Underwood, born and educated in Miami,...
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Published on 4/1/1997
Around the State
Bay County The Bay County Commission added another penny to the county's bed tax, according to the Panama City News Herald. The extra money will be used for Bay County's...
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Published on 3/1/1997
Players
Banking - Fort Lauderdale's BankAtlantic Bancorp Chairman and CEO Alan B. Levan adds the post of president with the departure of John P. O'Neill, who "left to pursue other opportunities...
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Published on 3/1/1997
