Word: houstonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Houston Rockets star Hakeem Olajuwon, one of the most eligible Muslim bachelors around, is off the market. He just wed Dalia Asafi, 18, of Houston, in an arranged marriage. "There's no dating, no boyfriends and girlfriends in Islam," said Olajuwon, 33, who has a child from a prior relationship. His new wife, he says, "possesses a maturity, knowledge and wisdom beyond her years...
...odds-on favorite to take Gramm's Senate seat if it opened up. A former Air Force pilot, Perry, 46, flies his own plane around the state checking on ranchers and farmers. "He has a very bright future," Gramm said at a lunch at the 1992 G.O.P. convention in Houston. "I have no doubt in my mind, Rick someday is either going to be Governor of our state or a Senator from Texas." Four years later, the scenarios still simmer; Gramm or junior Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison could get a Cabinet post, rekindling Perry's Senate dreams...
This year many of the journalists in Houston will find ourselves, as we did four years ago, lingering in our hotel rooms, watching C-SPAN replay footage from conventions past. We will watch the 1956 Kennedy-Kefauver vice-presidential race; we'll see Ronald Reagan moving the 1976 convention with a concession speech that foreshadowed his triumph four years later; we'll hear Harry Truman's 1948 promise to "win this election and make the Republicans like it!" Then we'll leave the gloriously colorful black-and-white past and head for the brightly colored convention hall, hoping...
Shattuck Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson and Jay P. Greene, assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston, found that, among minority students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those educated at private schools scored higher on standardized tests than did those from public schools...
...Republicans of their nascent majority in both houses. Only a handful of Reform Party candidates are running for Congress (mainly in Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania), and Perot says the party will endorse major-party candidates in many races. Expect to see Republicans and Democrats making hegiras to Houston...