Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Atlanta 42, Houston...
...Angeles 6. Houston...
...Houston, Santa Anna, the Civil War, Reconstruction; he is fluent in such things. I wondered why most Texans, for all their free anti-Government spirit, are Democrats. Because a Republican Governor was foisted on the people during Reconstruction, he said, and Texans don't forget. "I was the first elected Republican Governor of Texas." Texas stayed Democratic with Roosevelt, because "Roosevelt was the Moses of the 1930s." Is Reagan the Moses of the 1980s? "Texans relate to him. He says the right things. He looks the right way. His manner is Texas...
...sprightly competitors, Apple and Compaq, may be less affected by the new IBM products. Houston-based Compaq has successfully marketed a portable version of the desktop PC and just introduced a high-speed office model called the DeskPro. Apple meanwhile has been enjoying rapid sales of the updated version of the seven-year-old Apple II called the He, while 90,000 Macintoshes have been shipped since it was introduced seven months ago. As both the Compaq portable and the Apple machines are significantly less expensive than the new IBM computers, they are not expected to feel much direct pressure...
Gymnast Mitch Gaylord was wakened regularly by phone-calling female admirers. Many of the track stars hustled to European meets to cash in on the medals, although quadruple Gold Medalist Carl Lewis pushed back his own schedule after he stopped off in Houston and found his home had been tossed by burglars, his stereo and video equipment stolen, his well-publicized crystal collection shattered. It appeared that the welcoming signs of kindly neighbors had pointed out the mark...