Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Jeffers Houston...
Alicia, however, was not yet spent. By Thursday morning the storm had rolled 45 miles inland to Houston. Over the past ten years, the city's skyline has been transformed by glass-sheathed showpieces, like the S-shaped Allied Bank building. With rapid-fire pops, wind and flying debris punched out scores of windows in these architectural landmarks. "I stood upstairs in my office this morning and watched large sheets of plate glass coming down from 30 stories high," said Civil Defense Administrator Jonell Toole...
...always, there were uplifting vignettes. As Alicia bore down on Houston during the predawn hours of Thursday, Surgeon Denton Cooley, who had finally been able to find a suitable heart donor for a 48-year-old patient, performed a successful transplant. At St. Mary's Hospital in Galveston, the wife of a Coast Guard yeoman seaman gave birth to a baby girl. She was named (what else?) Alicia...
...Workers Union contends that his members "are not fat-cat steelworkers or auto workers." Their average wage is just over $5 an hour. The move to foreign goods has been accelerated by the renewed popularity of private-label merchandise. Retailers like New York City's Lord & Taylor and Houston's Sakowitz have become disenchanted with designer products because the widely available garments have lost much of their exclusivity. Halston's name, for example, now appears on J.C. Penney's dresses. Even worse, designer clothes frequently turn up in discount and off-price stores that are multiplying...
...vintage Cartier watch. To his new son-in-law he gave his "most prized possession," a framed photograph of Fisher holding Carrie and her brother Todd when they were babies. After the formalities, though, the customary honeymoon was replaced by a "working honeymoon" as the couple flew off to Houston, where Simon and Garfunkel were to appear as part of a nationwide reunion tour...