Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed as if the good times would go on forever. As the price of fuel soared through the 1970s, the economies of oil-rich regions, from Texas and Oklahoma to Wyoming and Alaska, exploded. The frantic growth fed on itself: in Tulsa, Houston and Denver, skylines seemed to sprout overnight. The new wealth was intoxicating, making giddy millionaires out of young geologists, and inspiring dentists to become oil barons. Says Texas Historian T.R. Fehrenbach: "Oil was a big hot flash of money...
...Houston, once proclaimed to be the shining buckle of the Sunbelt, has particularly suffered from the pervasive effects of the oil slump. Some 16,600 mortgages were foreclosed last year, more than the previous two years combined, and the pace is quickening. February brought nearly 3,000 foreclosures. Fully 29% of the city's office space sits empty...
Police chiefs from New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Boston, and Scotland Yard are among those expected to participate in the meetings...
...agency, especially among its restive 96-member astronaut corps. He piloted the pioneering second shuttle launch in 1981, when the test missions were so hazardous that they were equipped with ejection seats. He also commanded a 1983 flight of the doomed Challenger. In a speech televised from Houston's Johnson Space Center to NASA employees around the nation, Truly promised that future shuttle launches would provide "an acceptable margin of safety to the vehicle and crew...
Debra Clay, 34, a working librarian in Houston, felt every inch the caring parent. At the pricey Creme de la Creme preschool learning center, her eight- month-old daughter Kendall peered at two red dots on a white flash card held by a teacher, who called out, "Two!" As new cards came up, the teacher chanted the numbers while Kendall acknowledged the exercise with an occasional gurgle. Down the hall, Kendall's four-year-old sister Katie chirped, "Un, deux, trois . . ." mimicking the accent of her Parisian instructor. Elsewhere around Creme de la Creme, 150 other tots and toddlers grappled...