Word: houstonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Charlotte, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Orlando at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Seattle at Orlando, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Detrolt 7:30 p.m. Indiana at San Antonio, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Portland at Milwaukee 8:30 p.m. Indians at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Philadel, at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Miami at Denver, 9 p.m. Phoe at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Golden St. at Sacram., 10:30 p.m. Utah at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Minnes at Golden...
...Like most soap operas, the film version of Terry McMillan's best seller wins hot tears from its audience by imagining the worst things that could happen to decent people. Starring Angela Bassett and Whitney Houston, this is the familiar story of a quartet of young females looking for love and identity. Director Forest Whitaker ties his film's women to the railroad tracks of caprice and invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. But Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley...
...which would 1) grant a limited antitrust exemption shielding a professional sports league from a lawsuit if the league blocks a relocation, and 2) require a team intending to move to give 180 days' notice, during which time the jilted hometown could try to induce it to stay. Houston Mayor Bob Lanier, who is about to lose the Oilers to Nashville, said he simply didn't trust the N.F.L. "The foxes are guarding the chickens," said Lanier, "and while they keep saying, 'We're nice foxes,' I wonder what those feathers are, coming out of their mouths...
...aspect of baseball that Tagliabue would love to have: its antitrust exemption. Major league baseball, in part because of that exemption, hasn't had a franchise move since the Washington Senators went to Arlington, Texas, in 1972. Since then, the N.F.L. has faced 10 moves, counting Cleveland, Houston, Chicago and the two New York City teams to New Jersey. As far back as 1964, N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle argued that an antitrust exemption was necessary to safeguard "the league's ability to take measures which ensure survival of its weaker franchises...
Many of Huggins' patients continue to swear by his treatments. Kenneth Lay, chairman of Enron Corp. in Houston, and his wife Linda had their amalgam fillings removed at the Huggins Center in 1991. Her chronic fatigue disappeared, as did an unexplained numbness he was experiencing. "I know what his critics say," comments Lay, "but I'm convinced that he does a lot of good for a lot of people...