Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston, Reporter Gary Taylor interviewed citizens who had formed neighborhood patrols and court-monitoring groups. Taylor also has a painful knowledge of the subject: in 1980 he was shot during an assault. The experience lingers. Says he: "For months I awakened each morning at 2, the hour I was shot, and was unable to sleep. While watching TV cop shows, I still find myself turning from the set whenever guns are fired...
...Houston Bureau Chief David Jackson, who interviewed local police and prosecutors, encountered crime victims' resentment even while off his job. "During jury selection last month, nearly half of the group of prospective jurors indicated we had been burglarized," he recalls. "Many could barely mask their impatience with the criminal justice system. After watching them, the accused burglar evidently felt he had little chance of a sympathetic verdict. He changed his plea to guilty...
...notably Spelling, who started this season with a hefty seven hours of programming on the network. The audience, perhaps suffering from an overdose of Spelling's brand of glossy escapism, was notably cool to his new shows (like the disastrous Glitter), as well as to some former hits (Matt Houston). While NBC was having success with such novelties as The Cosby Show and Miami Vice, ABC seemed unable to extricate itself from its deepening...
...branch of Anglicanism) broke from their church over its ordination of women and tolerance for remarriage after divorce. In 1980 the Vatican agreed to the dissidents' requests to join the Roman Catholic Church. Parishes for converts were established in Las Vegas, Columbia, S.C., and the Texas cities of Austin, Houston and San Antonio. The traditional Roman Catholic Mass was said at these churches during the original phase, but for the first time in the U.S., the Vatican waived the celibacy rule and to date 23 married ex-Episcopal priests have been ordained in the Catholic Church. And now, for this...
Capital Cities which earned $135.2 million on revenue of $939.7 million last year, has four ABC affiliated television stations in Philadelphai, Houston. New Haven Hartford, Conn., and Buffalo, NY. In addition it owns CBS affiliates in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Fresno Calif., and an independent station in Tampa-St. Petersburg...