Word: houston
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Until recently, Newton's First Law was that home prices could only go up. Now residents of that Boston suburb -- and homeowners nationwide -- are having apples dropped on their heads. Suddenly a lot of people are talking about home prices going down. And I don't mean just in Houston (actually, they've begun to recover in Houston) or Billy Joel's penthouse on Central Park South, first offered at $2.8 million, then at $2 million, then $1.5 million, now $1.1 million -- and still unsold. Your average home may be affected...
...Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Joelle Attinger, Janice C. Simpson, Richard Behar, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Cristina Garcia, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
...Everyone was surprised at how strong we were against Houston," Costin-Scalise said. "At first we started winning in the pool events, and I think they got discouraged...
...nation's foremost opponent of environmental neglect and genetic engineering is waving a $20 bill as he makes a bet. The scene happens to be a meeting of the Humane Society in Houston, but the wager, which is part of his script, could just as easily be offered to a gathering of born-again environmentalists in Aspen, Colo.; at the Los Angeles home of TV producer Norman Lear; or on a college campus. Jeremy Rifkin bets that no one can answer this question: "What value has emerged in the past 100 years as our most dominant value, a value that...
...Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Joelle Attinger, Janice C. Simpson, Richard Behar, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Cristina Garcia, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...