The whole Hooters idea, he learned, had been an adolescent fantasy in which six men in 1983 had tried to recreate in Clearwater, Florida, the dream restaurants of their youth.

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The Dream, based in Port Canaveral, Florida, was on a seven-day cruise.

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There's one thing you actually can go back for' -- and that's the dream swim, which was Cuba to Florida.

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Obama campaign hands in Chicago and Florida are confident that the GOP's tough talk on immigration policy -- Romney has embraced elements of Arizona's tough immigration law and said he would veto the DREAM Act, for instance -- will push Florida's various Hispanic communities into the Democratic fold in November.

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Marco Rubio of Florida -- are getting ready to introduce their version of the DREAM Act.

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For at least five hundred years that has been Florida's defining theme whoever the protagonists are, whatever their dream, whatever flag they wave.

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You're the reason a woman in Doral, who's already working full-time during the day, can now afford to go to school at night because she's getting the financial aid that she needs. (Applause.) You're the reason there's families in Florida who are able to save their homes from foreclosure, and keep that piece of the American Dream.

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Does the Disney Dream, the cruise line's most ambitious ship to date, compare with the offerings of Florida's Walt Disney World, its largest resort?

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The Dream, which can carry more than 5, 000 passengers and crew, sailed from Port Canaveral in Florida on Saturday.

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