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Politics & Law
Florida's Toughest Job
If anyone in Florida has a tougher job than John Anderson, I'd be surprised. Anderson, the subject of this month's cover story, is the journeyman administrator who last January became...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Around the State
Florida Florida exports produced in the state rose to $12.3 billion for the first half of 1996, according to Enterprise Florida. This represents a 4.3% increase from the same period...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Redefining Dining In Jacksonville
In the bad old days of dining out in Jacksonville, a real restaurant recommendation used to be some place where the silverware matched. Today, there's no such denigrating dismissal. The...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Small Businesses Going Global
By Wayne Harris skSam Systems President Phil Schnyder sums up his company's export business in one word, "Gravy." That's because 42% of the software developer's $2 million in 1995 revenues...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Stopping A Bullet
The Wyoming Antelope Club in St. Petersburg might seem a far cry from the teeming streets of Santiago, Chile, but George Barber, corporate vice president-sales for Miami-based Commercial Plastics, has...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Wages Of Welfare Reform
When Florida lawmakers passed their ambitious welfare-to-work reforms this year, they figured they had one big advantage over other states: Florida's seemingly boundless ability to generate low-skill, low-wage jobs. The...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Bar Brawling
Describing the changing face of Florida's legal profession, attorney Delano Stewart says the bar has gone "from vichyssoise to bouillabaise." Translation: It's no longer all-white. Unfortunately, Stewart and other minority...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Wake-up Call
But Radtke has had a change of heart. Ten new gourmet coffees bearing the Melitta label, with such flavors as Chocolate Raspberry, soon will show up on U.S. grocery store...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Readers
Business Liability Welfare Reform My compliments and thanks for a penetrating and thoughtful editorial on welfare reform [FT, Sept. 1996]. It is so very easy for most to feel that...
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Published on 11/1/1996
An Expensive Experiment
In the suburbs northwest of Orlando, a media miracle has occurred: 4,000 ordinary families have received a visitation from the patron saint of couch potatoes. It is the Time Warner...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Building A Town From Scratch
To Mark and Kristine Klett, the planned community of Celebration in northwest Osceola County seemed like an antidote to the suburban sprawl they've come to loathe: Their kids' 55-minute bus...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Can Florida Compete?
To the north, Jacksonville, ever hungry for new economic conquests. In central Florida, under Mickey's flag, aggressive Orlando fans out across the region. To the west, Tampa Bay, astride the...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Why Banks Want You To Stay Home
To understand the future of banking, consider this: Each time a customer uses a teller to make a deposit, withdraw money or cash a check, it costs the bank about...
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Published on 11/1/1996
Dungeons for Dollars
Bay County Jail Warden Denny Durbin knows a bargain when he sees one. So when he ran across a local farmer looking to unload a truckful of fresh watermelons for...
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Published on 10/1/1996
A Few Questions
When watching political debates, I'm always frustrated by the questions that aren't asked - and by softball queries that float over the plate. So, with the second presidential debate scheduled...
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Published on 10/1/1996
Veddy, Veddy Tasty
The British are coming! More than a million visited Florida last year from England - more than twice as many as arrived from Brazil or Germany or Venezuela, five times...
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Published on 10/1/1996
"To Heck With The Patent"
When Florida inventor Ed Allina developed a new residential surge protector in 1986, he knew he had a winner. He applied for a patent, believing it would protect his rights...
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Published on 10/1/1996
Tomato War
In what may be a last-gasp attempt to stop the decline of Florida's winter tomato farming industry, U.S. Sen. Bob Graham has written to President Clinton urging him to look...
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Published on 10/1/1996
Around the State
Florida The Florida Department of Citrus in Lakeland named the Richards Group of Dallas as national advertising agency for Florida orange juice, a $28 million account from a total department...
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Published on 10/1/1996
Florida's European Connection
No more deutsch marks? No more francs? In just three years major nations in Europe are scheduled to adopt a common currency. The move is part of the economic unification...
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Published on 10/1/1996
This Land Is My Land
have to come off our drunk here." Taking On Tobacco, One Case At A Time Lawyers at Jacksonville's Spohrer Wilner Maxwell Maciejewski & Stanford gained national attention in August when...
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Published on 10/1/1996
Readers
Business Liability John D. McKinnon's article entitled "Looking Glass Law," [FT, July 1996] is both misleading and wrong. He describes the fall back rule relating to the doctrine of joint...
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Published on 10/1/1996
The Debate's Impact
"It's a mark of where Florida finds itself," says Gov. Lawton Chiles, talking about this month's presidential debate in St. Petersburg. "I think the fact that the debate is being...
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Published on 10/1/1996
Following the Money
Take a trip to Palm Beach County and you may bump into some of the 13,000 millionaires who live there. Another 3,000 reside in Collier County on Florida's west coast....
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Published on 10/1/1996
A Scent of Trouble
At first blush, the Luria family's decision to sell control of retailer L. Luria & Son looks like the end of an era for one family and the beginning of...
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Published on 10/1/1996
