Word: houston
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...focus. Manhattan's Bankers Trust ($40 billion), for example, has become one of the most profitable large U.S. banks by dramatically curtailing its consumer business in order to devote itself to merchant banking, a step that involved shedding more than 100 of its branches. Ben Love, chairman of Houston's Texas Commerce Bancshares
Ross company is just one of countless businesses in a wide range of industries all over the United States who call themselves Harvard From New York to Los Angeles, Boston to Houston, phone books bulge with cleaners, car washes, retail stores, even restaurants which have--one way or another ended up with the same name as one of the most famous universities in the world...
...four TD passes by the second-year quarterback from Pittsburgh gave him 36 in 13 games, tying him with Y.A. Tittle of the 1963 New York Giants and George Blanda, who accomplished the feat with the Houston Oilers of the American Football League in 1961. Both Tittle and Blanda did it in 14 games. AFL records are recognized as officials NFL marks...
...1990s, says John E. Naugle, a Fairchild official. For now, research will prevail. Still, the advocates of business in space believe that doubts should temper but not rule. Says 3M's Podsiadly: "The only thing more risky than participating is not participating." Says Hubert Davis, president of Houston's Eagle Engineering, a space think tank: "I believe people often overestimate what can be done in the short term, and underestimate what can be done in the long term...
...baboon to a human exists." But neither Hill nor other doctors foresaw any possibility of using simian hearts as a permanent solution to heart disease. "I think these transplants might be used to bide time until a human heart can be found," says Dr. Michael DeBakey, the pioneering Houston heart transplant surgeon...