Word: houston
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...female colleagues and the males were strangely silent. Since blacks are always assumed to be guilty, I feel the not-guilty verdict was one for all black people. The shoe is now on the other foot, and whites don't like the way it feels or fits. BILLY CHATMAN, Houston Via E-mail...
Dismissing the defense claim that the shooting had been an accident, a Houston jury convicted Yolanda Saldivar of having murdered Tejano singing star Selena. The sentence: life in prison with no possibility of parole for 30 years. The March shooting, which took place in a Corpus Christi motel, is said to have occurred during a financial dispute between Selena and Saldivar, the former president of the singer's fan club...
...through a brave budget without taking the blame for the very ingredients that made it brave in the first place. But sooner or later, he was bound to be cited for a moving violation. "We missed it," admitted a senior White House official, after Clinton went even further in Houston. "We should have caught it, but we didn...
President Clinton offhandedly told a Houston campaign audience that he had raised taxes "too much" in his 1993 budget package. After gleeful Republicans pounced on the comment and fuming Democrats let out the political equivalent of a primal scream (many placed their careers on the line when they backed the President in 1993), Clinton retreated and said voting for that package had been "the right thing...
...CareData Reports of New York has compiled a list of what it says are the best HMOs in the United States. The health plans rated most satisfactory by 10,272 members of 33 different HMOs were: Kaiser Permanente in Connecticut; Aetna Health Plan in greater Cleveland; Cigna Healthplans in Houston; Oxford Health Plans in New Jersey; and Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. Even the best could work on their bedside manner, however. CareData reports that customers who were pleased with their HMOs tended to think the medical care was better than the customer service. At the same time, healthier patients...