Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found that far more stressful than responding to a felony in progress or making arrests while alone was the day-to-day friction of dealing with what the officers saw as an "ineffective" judicial system and "distorted" press accounts about their work. In other stress surveys, police sergeants in Houston groused about paper pushing more than physical danger; teachers ranked administrative details second only to inadequate salary; air traffic controllers, whose high rate of hypertension and ulcers has been attributed to job pressure, complained more about such mundane matters as management, shift schedules and "irrelevant...
...peers, the King-Kleberg clan, at one point owned 13 million acres around the world, though, as Nelson Bunker Hunt observed, "a billion dollars isn't what it used to be." Among other renowned Texas aristocrats: Fort Worth's Perry Richardson Bass and Son Sid, and Houston's Roy Cullen III, oilmen; and Dallas' William Walter Caruth and Fort Worth's Anne Windfohr Phillips, landowners...
...male lawyers choose to underestimate her, that is fine with Houston's Diana Marshall, 35. "It happens constantly," she says. "And I'll admit, I've won a few cases by planting the notion that little old me wouldn't really take a case all the way to trial, without settling first. I'd spend all weekend preparing for trial while my opponent goes to the golf course." Such guile, plus prodigious energy, has enabled Marshall to become one of two women partners (out of 112) at the giant firm of Baker & Botts. Texas Judge...
...other day on his way down to Houston, the President told a reporter that if he decided to seek reelection, he surely wanted Houstonian George Bush to be his running mate again. Instantly, Bush signaled that he had been hoping for such an invitation and that he was ready for another race if Reagan...
...Pringle writes about his son's battle against leukemia with unadorned honesty. In 1980 Pringle, an Abilene, Texas, insurance claims adjuster, his wife Brenda and their two sons, Michael, 6, and Eric, 4, are plucked from their ordinary lives of Star Wars, shopping malls and Sunday school. In Houston's huge and hectic Tex as Children's Hospital, Eric, comforted by a Han Solo toy, endures daily blood drawings from his hands, spinal taps, radiation and chemotherapy. Although ravaged by treatment, the boy adapts better than his father. "His stomach protruding, his head bald," writes the horrified...