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	James Florio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Joseph Florio (born August 29, 1937) was the Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian-American to hold the position.
		Florio would also be the borough solicitor for the New Jersey towns of Runnemede, Woodlynne, and Somerdale from 1969 until 1974.
		Florio was subsequently defeated for re-election in 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Florio (336 words)

	GIOVANNI FLORIO - LoveToKnow Article on GIOVANNI FLORIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Three years later Florio was admitted a member of Magdalen College, and became a teacher of French and Italian in the university.
		Florio had many patrons; he says that he lived some years with the earl of Southampton, and the earl of Pembroke also befriended him.
		After the accession of James I., Florio was named French and Italian tutor to Prince Flenry, and afterwards became a gentleman of the privy chamber and clerk of the closet to the queen, whom he also instructed in languages.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FL/FLORIO_GIOVANNI.htm (486 words)

	Corzine Trounces Florio in Primary, Richest Senate Bid
		Florio's swift entry into the race set off a feverish search for a credible alternative to the former governor, as influential party leaders in the northern and central parts of the state believed he could not win a potential rematch with Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, and feared having to defend Mr.
		Florio ran only attack commercials in the last two weeks of the race, and had to be pressed at times to articulate his own agenda.
		Florio stumbled three weeks ago, when it was reported that he had expressed support for the same limited stock-market investment as recently as a year ago.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/camp/060700sen-nj.html (1973 words)

	MKA-Alumni: Florio Visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Florio began the morning in a classroom setting in the Avery Barras Library at the Upper School with the 35 sophomore students enrolled in the Leadership Program, who were probably still in diapers when Florio began his term as governor in 1989.
		Florio has spent the past 10 years out of public life, opening a financial management company in Morristown, and practicing law, his trained profession.
		Florio also called on the students to not only excel at the work they do - whether as teachers, doctors, or engineers - but to work to strengthen policies within their chosen professions.
	www.montclairkimberley.org /pages/alumni/alumni_florio.html (731 words)

	Model Trapped in Publicity Pitt - Feb 18, 2005 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Florio told Deutsch that she signed an affidavit provided by Pitt's attorneys swearing that she never had a fling with the actor.
		Florio went on to say that Pitt, at 41, was too old for her because he's the same age as her mother, which she said was "just a little weird for me."
		Florio also vowed to Deutsch that she won't be milking the scandal to further her own career, and that she would no longer grant any televised interviews to discuss the story.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,15961,00.html?tnews (895 words)

	At 90, Florio exercises mind and body regularly in Huff Hall
		Florio's history with the UI goes back to 1930 when he entered as a student.
		Twenty years ago on his 70th birthday, Florio jogged a 10K (6.2 mile) course that ended in Memorial Stadium, where he was surprised with a crowd of family, friends, two UI deans, banners, and television and radio reporters.
		Each year since, a Florio 10K race has been held on his birthday, and he jogged in it until he was 82.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /ii/00/0907florio.html (1088 words)

	Targa Florio
		Nazzaro won the second Targa Florio and since he was known to many of the locals, his victory was very popular with the fans.
		The war had deprived the Targa Florio of the great Peugeot driver Georges Boillot who was shot down in a dogfight with a squadron of German fighters.
		This years Targa Florio would entail 13 laps over a 44.64-mille circuit for a total of 580.32 miles.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/floria.htm (2103 words)

	Appeal of LAWRENCE DiGIORGIO and JOHN FLORIO - P.S. Docket No. MD 97-390
		Florio was the president of the corporation and owned 50% of the shares of the corporation, that Lawrence DiGiorgio was the vice president and Marilyn DiGiorgio was the secretary/treasurer, each owning 25% of the shares of the corporation.
		Disputant Florio contends that he is still an officer and a 50% owner of the corporation, that he has not authorized a change of address for the corporation and that, under the by-laws of the corporation, a change of address could not occur without his approval.
		Florio) was present at a meeting of the Board of Directors on August 4, 1997, at which Mr.
	www.usps.com /judicial/1997deci/md97390.htm (939 words)

	Florio v. Olson
		Appellant Paul Florio sued Alfred Olson in the United States District Court of Massachusetts alleging a maritime tort and claiming federal jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. On January 5, 1993, Florio, working as a line handler, helped to bring the USS Kauffman into drydock.
		It is undisputed that the caisson door, the capstan and Florio were all either connected to land or on land at the time of the accident.
		Florio's claims were based on allegations that, first, an inspection of the lines involved in the docking procedure would have revealed that the line at issue was in a deteriorated condition inappropriate for use, and second, that inadequate precautions were in place to prevent injury to the capstan operator from a parted line.
	www.law.emory.edu /1circuit/nov97/97-1509.01a.html (943 words)

	#103 (11/14/88): A Solution For The Incinerator Ash Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Florio and EDF are acting in good faith, but they seem to have misjudged the intensity of opposition to mass burn felt by the grass roots movement, which is fighting these incinerators as a matter of life and death, literally.
		Florio said his bill is better than no bill at all, and it is better than a competing bill proposed by Thomas Luken (D-OH), which would simply declare the ash non-hazardous and would allow it to be dumped anywhere.
		Florio and EDF argue that their flawed proposal is the best that can be gotten through Congress, and thus should be passed.
	www.monitor.net /rachel/r103.html (1173 words)

	Salon Feature \| Back from the dead?
		Florio was first elected to the House in 1974, during the Democratic Watergate landslide, but he lost in his first try for governor, in 1977, coming in fourth in the Democratic primary.
		Florio's loss was therefore a harbinger of the momentous Republican Revolution one year later.
		Today, Florio says that having been forced into the status of a private citizen for the first time since 1969, he came to better understand the stress of being a common Joe.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/1999/09/11/florio/print.html (1816 words)

	Florio Loves the Campaign Gutter-6/1/00-S. Adubato
		From the beginning, the Florio strategy has been to attack Corzine for proposing that a modest portion of Social Security funds (15 percent over 15 years) should be invested in the stock market.
		Florio said this was the "defining issue" in the hotly contested Senate race.
		Florio continued to go after his opponent even after it was revealed that he had taken the exact same position in a public forum.
	www.caucusnj.org /adubato/2000/00-0601.asp (686 words)

	Steve Florio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Florio was appointed President of The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. when the company was purchased by Advance Publications, and in January 1988, he was given the additional title of Chief Executive Officer.
		Florio has served on the Publisher?s Council of the Magazine Publisher?s Association (MPA) and is Vice Chairman of the Association?s Board of Directors, as well as a member of the Advertising Council Board.
		Florio is an active member of The New York Yacht Club and a Trustee of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, Long Island.
	pages.stern.nyu.edu /~gdaly/SFlorio.html (459 words)

	The Trentonian - News - 05/12/2000 - FLORIO BOMBS
		Florio stood by his 1990 tax hike, but Corzine accused Florio of saying he wouldn’t raise taxes, and then doing it anyway after he was elected governor.
		Florio, in turn, accused Corzine of putting forth healthcare and education proposals that the federal government can’t afford.
		Florio continued to accuse Corzine, who has spent millions of dollars of his own money on TV ads, of trying to buy the election.
	zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=429686&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551 (664 words)

	Genealogy of Northeast Pennsylvania • Other Records - FLORIO Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arthur A Florio, 51, Chairman of the Smith Twp Supervisors, suffered a heart attack and died Mon afternoon, 19 Jan 1970, in Harrisburg.
		Mr Florio, a resident of Slovan for the past 36 years, served as a secretary to State Democratic Secretary Ernest P Kline, in addition to his duties as a township supervisor.
		Mr Florio was in Harrisburg to check with state officials concerning a proposed community jail facility for this area.
	www.users.fast.net /~alkeis/obit/florio.html (313 words)

	Targa Florio -- The Great Debate
		When TAG-Heuer reissued the Targa Florio as part of its Classic series, the company retold the story of it association with Fangio and his wearing a Heuer chronograph during the race.
		Some believe that the "Targa Florios" now being sold as the original vintage chronographs were, in fact, copied from the re-issue model, rather than the re-issue being copied from the original.
		In all its literature relating to the re-issue of the Targa Florio, TAG-Heuer refers to the chronograph that was made for Fangio in the 1950's.
	www.onthedash.com /Tables/TargaFlorio.txt (709 words)

	SAVERIO FLORIO
		Saverio Florio studied and received his "Laurea in Chemistry" at the University of Bari (Italy) in 1967 under Professor Paolo E. Todesco's supervision.
		Vito Capriati, Leonardo Degennaro, Raffaele Favia, Saverio Florio and Renzo Luisi
		- Vito Capriati, Saverio Florio, Renzo Luisi and Antonio Salomone
	www.farmchim.uniba.it /chimica_organica (1260 words)

	Whitman Makes Florio Look Good-S. Adubato
		I interviewed Florio on numerous occasions and every time it turned out to be a less pleasant experience than the last.
		When Florio lost to Whitman in 1993, I was kind of glad he was gone.
		Florio was passionate about raising taxes as the only responsible way to respond to a court mandate to provide more funding to urban schools while balancing the state budget.
	www.caucusnj.org /adubato/2002/02-0523.asp (725 words)

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		But Florio, who runs a tax-lien collection company and works for a law firm, admits the gig at Rutgers is not full time.
		Stephanie Bush-Baskette, who was Florio's community affairs commissioner, heads the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Rutgers Newark campus for a salary of $129,000, the records show.
		In addition to his Rutgers job, Florio is chairman and CEO of Xspand, a tax-lien collection firm with several lucrative municipal contracts in New Jersey.
	www.bergen.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2NjUzMjI2 (971 words)

	Christine Whitman
		However, Florio had so offended his constituents by raising taxes and reacting slowly to the plummeting economy in his state, that in the end Whitman won.
		However, Florio had just been elected as governor, and as such raised taxes by $2.8 billion and instigated an unpopular increase in the state sales tax.
		She complained to Governor Florio that he had violated an understanding between the two of them and extended contracts, endorsed salary increases, and appointed people to positions before she took office.
	www.edwardsly.com /whitmanc.htm (1902 words)

	New York Daily News - Business - CEO Florio ends Conde Nast run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Steve Florio is stepping down as president and CEO of Conde Nast after a decade as a publishing power and right-hand man to chairman Si Newhouse.
		Florio dismissed a report that health concerns were a big factor.
		Florio joined Conde Nast in 1979 as publisher of GQ and became president of The New Yorker when the Newhouse family added the mag to its publishing empire in 1985.
	www.nydailynews.com /business/story/154265p-135727c.html (333 words)

	Campaigns & Elections: Read our lips, no more Florio! - reelection of New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio - The 1993 New ...
		However, the Florio campaign was successful in winning two issues, crime (49 percent preferred Florio's approach; 32 percent selected Whitman) and gun control (61 percent Florio; 23 percent Whitman).
		To understand the magnitude of anger toward Jim Florio and the luke-warm feelings toward Christine Todd Whitman, we asked voters whether their vote was more an expression of support for their candidate or against the opponent.
		Even though Florio's negative campaign was successful in keeping him in the game until the end, it may also have cost him the election in the waning hours of the race.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n1_v15/ai_14891059 (1374 words)

	The legendary Targa Florio
		The Florio Plate also was a match for less known pilots, but not for this reason less heroic, that to their expenses and with their immense sacrifices faced, year after year, the thousand curves of the Madonie.
		Vincenzo Florio was born at Palermo from a rich family March the third of 1883.
		His masterpiece is the Targa Florio, that he made born in the 1906, in his native earth, on the famous Circuit of the Madonie.
	www.geocities.com /agrifasi/targaflorioiniziogbr.htm (658 words)

	Florio to step down as chairman of Pinelands Commission (phillyBurbs.com)
		Florio will leave the post when his term expires in June, according to Kelley Heck, spokeswoman for acting Gov. Richard J. Codey.
		Florio served as governor from 1990 to 1994 and represented the 1st Congressional District, which includes four towns in Burlington County, from 1975 to 1990.
		Filling Florio's vacancy will be the top priority, but she could not say whether Codey will have time to nominate someone, and have the Senate confirm the nomination, before lawmakers break for the summer.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/112-04292005-482837.html (557 words)

	The Florio Files
		Florio spent the rest of his first term running from his negative ratings.
		Florio lost by one of the closest margins ever seen in a gubanatorial race.
		Florio was bitter over his defeat and dropped out of public life to become a became partner in a lawfim.
	www.unitedstatements.com /html/florio.htm (862 words)

	Florio Biography
		His son, John, was born in 1553 and apparently resided in Oxford for much of his youth where he became a "teacher and instructor." He dedicated his English translation of Ramuzio to Edward Bray, high sheriff of Oxfordshire, and matriculated at Magdalen College in 1581.
		Florio was in London at the end of the century, where he dedicated his great Italian-English dictionary to Roger, earl of Rutland.
		In 1603, he became reader in Italian to Queen Anne, and was appointed by the King "groom of the privy chamber." Florio died in August or September of 1625 in Fulham, after having contracted the plague.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/florio/florio-bio.shtml (189 words)

	Targa Florio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Targa Florio was an open road endurance automobile race held near Palermo, Sicily.
		The race was created in 1906 by the wealthy pioneer race driver and automobile enthusiast, Vincenzo Florio, who had started the "Coppa Florio" race in Brescia, Lombardy in 1900.
		Always one of the toughest competitions in Europe, the first Targa Florio covered 277 miles (446 km) through multiple hairpin curves on treacherous mountain roads at heights where severe changes in climate frequently occurred.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Targa_Florio (396 words)

	Florio fights cash machine in primary
		Former Gov. Jim Florio, who makes Camden County his base, is seeking a political comeback in the form of his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate.
		Florio is a hero to liberal union leaders and environmentalists.
		Florio compared the move to Watergate and the actions of the KGB.
	www.detnews.com /EDITPAGE/0006/04/edit4/edit4.htm (632 words)

	Attention turns to replacing Florio in Pinelands (phillyBurbs.com)
		Former Gov. James Florio, whose resignation was announced Friday and is effective in June, was an architect of Pinelands protection legislation in the 1970s, and had influence and stature that afforded him access to the corridors of power in Trenton, they say.
		However, Florio's departure creates a vacancy that could go unfilled for several months if Codey doesn't nominate his replacement and obtain Senate approval before lawmakers break for the summer.
		Florio served three years as chairman of the agency that regulates land use in the 1 million-acre southern New Jersey reserve, home to rare plants and animals and a pure water supply.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/112-05012005-483581.html (570 words)

	BoSacks "Heard on the Web" - Media Intelligence
		Florio is reporting to the Publisher’s Information Bureau includes some money from Men’s Vogue, which will make its newsstand debut—still, officially, as a test product—in September, with its older sister as chaperone.
		Florio is something of an atavistic figure: the last of a certain breed of Condé Nast publisher.
		Florio said, “we’re as active off the page, in the design studio, consulting the C.E.O. who the next designer should be, as we are on the page.
	www.bosacks.blogspot.com (7708 words)

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