Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angels 5, Houston...
...Houston 23, Seattle...
Hannah, 60, a wealthy Houston land developer and space buff, had failed on his first try: a year ago, near the same Matagorda launching pad, SSI's inaugural rocket, built for $1.2 million by a young self-taught engineer, blew up during a test of its liquid-fuel engine. Chastened, Hannah got serious. He hired an experienced California contractor who had built 22 rockets for the Government, got a solid-fuel Minuteman motor from the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (cost: $365,000), and hired Slayton and seven other full-time employees to help...
...prices, killing incentives to drill new wells. The number of active drilling rigs in the state has dropped 40% since December, and refineries and petrochemical plants in the state's eastern counties have been operating at about 70% capacity for at least a year. In the Houston bankruptcy court, 98 energy-related companies have filed for Chapter 11 protection so far this year...
...areas. Labor has also been slow in attracting the millions of women who are entering the work force, and it has lagged in signing up workers of all kinds in the growing Southwest and West. The AFL-CIO is coordinating a $1.2 million campaign of local unions in the Houston area to win members, but the project has got off to a slow start...