The remainder of the ridge was discovered in the 1920s by the German Meteor expedition using echo-sounding equipment the exploration of the MAR in the 1950s led to the general acceptance of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics, By late 1975 after seven years at the helm Charles Perry felt he had accomplished his goal and left the university to become president and publisher of the Sunday newspaper magazine Family Weekly (later USA Weekend) one of the country's largest magazines When he left there were more than 10,000 students attending classes and a campus with five major buildings and a sixth being planned, Campus Support Complex 1999 3.10 Campus transportation. The story of Florida International University's founding began in 1943 when state Senator Ernest 'Cap' Graham (father of future Florida governor and U.S senator Bob Graham) presented the state legislature with the initial proposal for the establishment of a public university in South Florida While his bill did not pass Graham persisted in presenting his proposal to colleagues advising them of Miami's need for a state university He felt the establishment of a public university was necessary to serve the city's growing population. 6.2 Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 brought 150,000 Cubans to Miami the largest transport in civilian history Unlike the previous exodus of the 1960s most of the Cuban refugees arriving were poor some having been released from prisons or mental institutions to make the trip During this time many of the middle class non-Hispanic whites in the community left the city often referred to as the "white flight" in 1960 Miami was 90% non-Hispanic white but by 1990 it was only about 10% non-Hispanic white!
There has long been plans for Metrorail the local heavy rail rapid transit system to be extended west with two proposed lines terminating at Florida International University's main campus This would ease traffic and parking problems at and around the main campus. Black or African American: 21.2% [1,288,585], 4 Student life Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001, Interior view of concourse D. As rain continued to fall the slightly acidic rainwater dissolved the limestone as limestone wore away the groundwater came into contact with the land surface and created a massive wetland ecosystem Although the region appears flat weathering of the limestone created slight valleys and plateaus in some areas These plateaus rise and fall only a few inches but on the subtle South Florida topography these small variations affect both the flow of water and the types of vegetation that can take hold.
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