UF Economists: Post-Election Optimism May Lead To Higher Holiday Sales
Published: November 27 1996
GAINESVILLE — Strong consumer confidence may translate into good holiday sales for retailers, say University of Florida economists.
Published: November 27 1996
GAINESVILLE — Strong consumer confidence may translate into good holiday sales for retailers, say University of Florida economists.
Published: November 26 1996
GAINESVILLE—In an effort to stay ahead of environmental rules that may prohibit burying dead birds, Florida poultry farmers soon may turn to composting the thousands of birds that die daily in chicken houses.
Published: November 25 1996
GAINESVILLE— Cheryl Amey was a 30-year-old single mother of four living in poverty when she realized the only chance for a better life was to go back to school and get a college degree.
Published: November 22 1996
GAINESVILLE—A typical phone call in a typical day for Carol McLarty might be from a reporter wanting to know where Florida ranks in U.S. hog production.
Published: November 21 1996
GAINESVILLE — A comprehensive national retail industry survey released today reveals retailers lost $27 billion, or 1.87 percent of their total 1995 annual sales to a combination of employee and customer theft, administrative error and vendor fraud.
Published: November 19 1996
GAINESVILLE—An aging Western cougar with a bad knee now has a new one after University of Florida veterinarians surgically implanted a prosthetic device for the first time in an exotic cat.
Published: November 15 1996
GAINESVILLE — When Rae O. Weimer came to the University of Florida in 1949 to lead the Florida’s first journalism school, he arrived without a college degree or any professional teaching experience.
Published: November 14 1996
GAINESVILLE—A new subterranean termite recently discovered in South Florida may be just as destructive as the dreaded Formosan termite, say University of Florida scientists.
Published: November 13 1996
GAINESVILLE — Cooler temperatures that mark the terrestrial migration of human snowbirds to the Sunshine State also encourage the ocean’s most dangerous predator to make its voyage here, says a University of Florida researcher.
Published: November 12 1996
GAINESVILLE—Rest may not be best for patients diagnosed with chronic heart failure, University of Florida researchers say.
Published: November 8 1996
GAINESVILLE — Although they are too young to drive, first graders at Gainesville’s M. K. Rawlings Elementary School are taking to the highway — the information superhighway. And education scholars from the University of Florida say this highway can lead to greater learning.
Published: November 7 1996
GAINESVILLE — A 10,000-year-old underwater time capsule is giving University of Florida scientists new clues about the first people to survive the tumultuous transition from the Ice Age to today’s modern climate.
Published: November 5 1996
GAINESVILLE — Proving that stormwater retention areas do not have to be unattractive cement pits or deep depressions in the landscape, students in the University of Florida Wetlands Club are redesigning a retention pond to both store extra water and preserve a piece of Florida’s wetlands.
Published: November 1 1996
GAINESVILLE—Scientists have long known that dieting, fasting and malnourishment can cause at least temporary infertility in women and men. Now, for the first time, they think they know how.
Published: November 6 1996
GAINESVILLE—The University of Florida Gators may have stopped the Georgia Bulldogs in their tracks Saturday, but UF veterinarians prefer to help bulldogs get back on their feet.
Published: November 27 1996
GAINESVILLE—At the University of Florida, football players aren’t the only ones wearing helmets these days. Off the field, UF researchers have developed specialized headgear to explore the body’s ultimate frontier–the brain.