Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existing homes jumped $2,600 in March, to $80,000, up 7.2% from the same month last year. The steepest increase came in the Northeast, where the median price hit $101,300, a 16.7% rise over 1985. Prices are falling in depressed regions like the oil patch. In the Houston area, the median home price dipped about 12% during the past year. One reason: home foreclosures in Houston have reached their highest level in 20 years...
Bush to Michigan: DROP DEAD, read the headline over the lead editorial in the Detroit News. Scoffed Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker: "This sounded more like the concerns of a Congressman from Houston than the Vice President...
There are signs, both serious and frivolous, that the good life is not what it used to be. Rolls-Royce and Mercedes automobiles are appearing in used-car lots. In boom times, the skies over Houston during rush hour were filled with helicopters ferrying executives; today the choppers are a rare sight. Last week, in an effort to cheer its customers, the tony La Colombe d'Or restaurant offered a four-course lunch pegged to the price of a barrel...
...offer to sample the cuisine on an offshore rig was the sort of thing no self-respecting food buff could refuse. "We hear you're interested in good food," ran the letter from executives of Keydril, the Houston-based company that contracts, staffs and operates ten exploration drilling rigs for oil companies around the world. "Come and have lunch with us. We think you'll be surprised." To an intrepid eater who had tried to get aboard a rig for years, the invitation was irresistible, because food on offshore rigs is legendary for both quantity and quality. Meals have long...
...King Kong. At one point Katya seemed to have gone Hollywood, donning a pair of sunglasses and telling students, "I want to be a film director." In fact, she is already a somewhat experienced actress, having appeared back home in five peace-promoting films. Earlier, in Houston, she visited the Johnson Space Center and participated in her first Easter-egg hunt. In Chicago she sampled the cuisine of McDonald's (French fries da, Big Mac nyet). And in Washington she toured the national monuments. The point of her 13-day visit was to bring a message of world peace...