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...industry boom lifted Houston to new peaks of wealth and power-and new acts of brazenness-while Dallas, long the more prosperous of the two cities, watched with chagrin. Today Dallas is on the rise again, but Houston is not exactly somnolent. In a move that has made Dallas aghast, a group of Houston boosters is offering college football's Southwest Conference $3 million in cash to lure the postseason Cotton Bowl game from Dallas, where it has been played for the past 45 years. "They have more chance of moving the stadium than they do the game," declares...
Europeans are appalled. "It's the silliest financial discipline the U.S. could adopt," says former Dutch Treasury Official Coenrad J. Oort. Many private-sector American economists are aghast. Says Michael Evans, who heads his own economic consulting firm in Washington, B.C.: "There were periodic crashes in which banks collapsed during more than 50 years of the gold standard. I don't think that is what anyone wants." Yet to the astonishment of nearly everyone, important members of Congress continue to give serious thought to the idea of putting the U.S. back on some form of the gold standard...
Maureen Reagan thinks she'll run. "I hope not," President Reagan blurted out several weeks ago. White House aides are aghast at the First Daughter's possible entry into next year's California Senate race. "She's a real loose cannon," says one. But a California political pro is hedging his bets: "You can't totally write...
...keep a low profile: do not talk to the press or become a public figure, get out of the phone book, no names on company parking spots and no logos on company cars and planes. Tony Purbrick, who heads Pinkerton's executive and personnel protection program, was aghast to find that one client corporation routinely left its well-marked jet on an unguarded ramp and flight plans were widely circulated. "The first thing I had to do," he says, "was to get people to be just a little more secretive...
Ugast was aghast when some jurors told him that Virginia Starks had been secretly drinking for days during the trial, that during deliberations, Juanita Ross had joined her, and that Starks and Ross refused even to vote on the case. Ugast, in disgust, declared a mistrial, at a cost to the public estimated by Defense Attorney Grandison E. Hill to total $150,000. In another sense, the cost may be greater. The victim may not want to go through the anguish of testifying again, and without her there would likely be no case...