Word: houstonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know your check-to-check living renders you only a few steps away from homelessness. I love my son with a fierce passion and only hope that the presidential candidates pay special attention to the needs and issues that really matter in the homes across America. ANNA NUNEZ Houston...
CONVICTED. JUAN GARCIA ABREGO, 52, reputed head of Mexico's Gulf cartel; on federal drug-trafficking charges; in Houston. He could get a life sentence...
...soccer ball. Nobody is skeptical anymore. Not only has their theory been confirmed, but it has blossomed into a thriving branch of research. And last week that trio of chemists--Harold Kroto from Britain's University of Sussex, and Robert Curl and Richard Smalley from Rice University in Houston--were rewarded for their work with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
...newsprint, was occurring among papers large and small, famous and obscure. In January the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel announced a merger, destroying about 500 jobs--and creating yet another one-newspaper town. In March the Fort Worth Star-Telegram abandoned its all-day edition. In April the Houston Post walked off the field, leaving its rival, the Chronicle, with the run of the city. Knight-Ridder then announced plans to cut 250 jobs at its two Philadelphia newspapers, the Daily News and the Inquirer. In the fall, managers at the Hartford Courant, which had never laid...
Then, too, a number of alternative weeklies are stepping in where older papers, sensitive to charges of negativity, have let their role as community watchdog slide. New Times Publications, for instance, claims some 700,000 readers of its seven increasingly successful papers in Phoenix, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. New Times's Westword kept dogged watch over the start-up problems at the Denver International Airport last year, while the dailies, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, were less critical. And the Phoenix New Times beat that city's dailies on the corruption scandals...