Statewide unemployment, at 10.2%, has trebled since then, as bricklayers lay down their hods and tour guides doff their Mickey masks.Florida's recession began earlier than the national one.
But Mr Aziz's appointment does not answer the big question in Pakistani politics: whether the general will, as promised, doff his uniform at the end of the year and serve out the rest of his presidential term, until 2007, as a mere civilian.
TO DON shoes, to doff them, or even to throw them at somebody?
He wants to stay on as both army chief and president, despite a pledge last year to doff his uniform.
At the beginning of the blockade, Berliners were still a brutalised and resentful subject people, expected to doff their caps to the occupying forces.
HAVING made no secret of my own doubts about Newt Gingrich, I doff my cap to the candidate for having picked up the important endorsement of the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Father Olu is now the leader of an exuberant Aladura movement, made up of churches of African origin that put more emphasis on worship than theology.At half a dozen places in London, his followers doff shoes and don white robes to pray and prophesy.
When their team wins, fans refer to "our victory" and wear the sweatshirts that identify them as loyal supporters; when their team fares badly, fans tend to doff the sweatshirts and to complain about "the team's loss".
The most enduring of these groups were the Quakers (Society of Friends), whose social radicalism was seen in their refusal to take oaths or doff their hats and whose religious radicalism was contained in their emphasis upon inner light.
One or two mounted bailiffs (alguaciles) in 16th-century costume (sometimes cowboy costume in Mexico) with plumed hats ride across the ring to the box of the president (often a local dignitary) and doff their hats.
In the end even his greatest rival had to doff his cap, Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg paying Lewis Hamilton the ultimate compliment of deference.
