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Around the State
Miami --Oil and natural gas exploration and production company Forcenergy agreed to buy the interests in three Alaskan crude-oil fields from Pittsburgh-based Marathon Oil for $128 million. Forcenergy also agreed...
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Published on 2/1/1997
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Retail Real EstateIn regard to the Real Estate column "Entertaining Shoppers" [FT, December 1996], I agree with Bayside's Raul Tercilla that Florida can sustain many urban entertainment centers if "each...
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Bait & Switch Tallahassee Style
With the annual gathering of legislators in Tallahassee only weeks away, I can already hear their exhortations for efficiency in government. We're going to cut waste, they'll say. We'll streamline...
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Investing In The Future
In the bull market of 1996, Wall Street often rewarded speculators in technology stocks and frustrated conservative money managers looking for reasonable value. In 1997, that may change. Beaten-down technology...
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Making The Grade
In today's competitive market, Florida's small businesses increasingly need workers with advanced technical and communication skills. Frequently, those workers are tough to find, so businesses are taking charge of educating...
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Style And Stamina
Exporters draw fawning attention from economic development agencies on the defensible premise that they create more jobs than importers. Boosting the state's exports of everything from oranges to aerospace gear,...
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Welcome To The New Florida Trend
The magazine you're reading is the product of a year's work. We believe it reflects and anticipates changes in our beat, Florida, and in the needs of you, our readers....
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Fight To The Death
Not much has changed at the Mizell-Faville-Zern Southdale Chapel in West Palm Beach since it was founded in 1924. Personnel have come and gone, but the name has remained the...
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Competition - On Hold
Thirteen months after Florida deregulated the local telephone industry, businesses are still waiting for the benefits of competition. The ability to choose among a host of competitors for service that...
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Dining Magic
Armani's, Tampa Beach Bistro, Holmes Beach Bern's Steak House, Tampa Brooks Restaurant, Deerfield Beach Cafe L'Europe, Palm Beach Chalet Suzanne, Lake Wales Chef Allen's, North Miami Beach Criolla's, Grayton Beach...
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It's Lonely At The Top
Barbara Samson's odd career path never fails to raise a question. Eleven years ago, before the telecommunications sector boomed, she had the idea of offering cheaper long-distance connections by sidestepping...
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On Their Own
White Line Trucking company owner Audrey Quackenbush has answered the same questions a thousand times. No, she didn't have a father, husband, brother or son who started the $4.2 million...
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Buying or Selling a Florida Business
Where To Begin If You Want To Buy..."For every good business, there are multiple buyers," says Pensacola business broker Bill Gibson. Not every business for sale in Florida is a...
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Anger
Like most other St. Petersburg residents, I was badly shaken by the two frightening nights of rioting, larceny and arson in a section of the city with a largely black...
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Around the State
Florida The Kiplinger Florida Business Letter folded in December after 40 years of financial coverage and predictions. The 9,700-circulation Florida monthly didn't grow as anticipated, according to the publication's owners....
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Generous Servings Of Disney Magic
Sure, they serve more than five million hot dogs, eight million pounds of french fries and eight million burgers a year, but they are also flying in fresh fish from...
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Talk & Predictions
MARKETINGSanta Rosa Sells By CD Kids' games aren't the only thing being marketed these days on CD-ROM. Santa Rosa County's Authority for Economic Activity (AEA) and its private sector partner...
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Buy A Business, Buy A Job
What's it take to become a business owner? Money, focus and a willingness to be a jack-of-all-trades.
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The Power Goes To The Losers
On the November day when Republicans realized they would take over the state House of Representatives, members boosted Speaker-to-be Daniel Webster onto their shoulders and carried him around an Orlando...
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Courting Business
Lawyers employed in disputes between businesses have become increasingly specialized. Now judges would too, under a proposal being advanced by Dade County trial lawyers. The plan would create a separate...
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Transportation
The notoriously cyclical transportation sector has thrived during Florida's slow but durable economic expansion in the 1990s. Job growth in the sector - where the average worker earns $2,000 more...
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Economic Incentives The article "How Much Is A Job Worth?" in your November 1996 issue makes reference to Palm Beach County's job incentive program with the phrase, "avoid Palm Beach-type...
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Telecommunications
Fueled by the promise of new markets, increasing corporate use of sprawling data networks and consumer interest in the Internet, the entire telecommunications sector in Florida has become a growth...
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