Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doerr has shown talent at that ever since his days at Rice University in Houston, where he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering. He started a computer-software company during his sophomore year. While picking up an M.B.A. at Harvard, Doerr worked 20 hours a week at Intel, the & semiconductor firm. When he has time, Doerr relaxes with his wife Ann in their fashionable Pacific Heights home, and he declares himself "more interested in making new technology successful than in the technology itself...
...offs in Georgia, New Jersey and California have flourished, but many others have floundered. Freedomland U.S.A., a theme park in the Bronx, N.Y., devoted to American history and shaped like a map of the U.S., opened in 1960 and closed four years later at a loss of $20 million. Houston's Hanna-Barbera Land, a pizazzy play park for children, closed last September after two years. Half a dozen theme attractions, from Stars Hall of Fame to Circus World, have failed within the shadow of Walt Disney World...
Three middle stops in Houston represent an oasis all right, but having coached the Celtics to a championship four years ago, Fitch had a special * perspective on both teams and seemed to be finding scant comfort in so much local knowledge. "When that little picture machine of his goes off," he said of Bird, "he's in a world of his own. (Fitch used to like to call Bird "Kodak.") That little voice starts talking to him. He's in his backyard again. He's playing by himself." The image delighted Fitch, but only for a moment...
...shuttle astronauts. But to cope with its unfamiliar duties in operating a dual-purpose passenger and cargo service, NASA created a decentralized structure that the Rogers commission is expected to criticize. Its headquarters in Washington lost effective control of its operational arms at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The centers, in turn, seemed uncertain about their relation to one another. At the same time, the private contractors supplying and supervising the assembly of the shuttle's vital hardware often fell behind in their deliveries...
...pornography and violence required long hours for the eleven members of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. They listened to social scientists, legal experts and victims of sex crimes; they pored over studies and reports. But their most vivid research occurred on a visit last fall to three Houston adult bookstores, where they watched a vice squad in action and bought a booklet called Young Girls in Bondage...