Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barbara C. Kuehm Houston...
...jobs in what they have been told is a booming Sunbelt. But the recession--which sent unemployment soaring from 8.6 percent to 10.8 percent in 1982 alone--has hit down south as well. So the homeless make do as best they can--in the sprawling "Tent City" outside of Houston, under freeway passes in Southern California, in overcrowded church-run shelters. They are like latter-day Okies, but in reverse. Overwhelmingly, today's unemployed drifters come from the industrial Midwest and Northeast; that is, from a part of the country where another factory is shut down just about every...
...Houston...
...lead at the end of a 375-lb. power unit remains a source of speculation and controversy, but at least one former critic has modified his views. "I must confess I am impressed with the results achieved so far in Salt Lake City," says Dr. Denton Cooley, the famed Houston heart surgeon. Cooley had earlier likened the bold use of the cumbersome device to "putting John Glenn in a rocket in 1950 and aiming him at the moon." Jarvik feels that his invention has already proved its worth: "We have been able to offer at least one patient...
...Diego 105, Houston...