Word: houstonize
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...generally kind of awful, even when she's not hanging upside down above a threshing machine. Finally, the movie turns Portland into a gray, soggy monsoon city. I checked the city's official website and read: "Our average annual rainfall is less than that of Atlanta, Birmingham, Houston, Indianapolis or Seattle." Maybe everyone who logs onto the site makes it pour more...
...self-image as the cosmopolitan capital of the "New South." It's the ninth most populous city in the U.S., is home to the world's busiest airport, arrived on the international stage in 1996 when it hosted the Summer Olympics, and ranks third behind New York and Houston in the number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered there. What's more, blacks and whites do sit side-by-side on the city council and school boards. Three consecutive African-American mayors have collectively served 30 years in office...
...term “urban sprawl” might conjure up images of Newark or Houston, but the dense, chaotic outskirts of Cairo, Egypt present a planning nightmare on a different scale...
...Afghans can see the museum's collection. Curators hope the exhibit will go home in the not too distant future, but for now, it will continue making its rounds abroad: it was in Paris and Turin before Amsterdam, and after Washington will travel to New York, San Franciso and Houston. The exhibit's catalogue, though, has been translated into the Afghan languages Dari and Pashtu and will be distributed to every school in the country. Deputy Minister Sultan has no doubts about the future of his country's art. "If they were able to save it at that time...
...election, President George H.W. Bush learned that breaking the golden rule could be politically fatal. When Republicans gathered in Houston for their national convention that year, Bush provided religious conservative favorites Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan with prime slots in the speaking lineup and then allowed both to bypass the vetting process required for other speeches. That cleared the way for Buchanan to declare in his address: "There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will...