Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost immediately after layers of asbestos were discovered between floors and ceilings in Houston's 13-story BancTexas building, worried tenants started packing up and leaving. Now, little more than a year later, the building is empty and its owners are trying to sell it for $6.5 million, an asking price 30% to 50% less than the building might fetch if it were asbestos-free. In Manhattan the former J.C. Penney headquarters, a 45-story tower that was sold last May to a real estate partnership for $352 million, stands vacant while workers remove asbestos from the building. Estimated cost...
Asbestos lurks in some of the most prominent and populated structures: Manhattan's World Trade Center, Chicago's John Hancock Building and Houston's Astrodome. But it can be found at many ordinary addresses as well. More than 733,000 structures, or 20% of U.S. commercial and public properties, are believed to contain the mineral, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In about two-thirds of buildings with asbestos, some of the material is in a friable state, which means it is crumbling into microscopic fibers that can float through the air. (There has yet been no federal survey...
...lost its fizz either. In December the company signed teen heartthrob George Michael for a diet Coke commercial, to begin this week, which features music from a previously unreleased single (his fee: a reported $4 million). In the past, Coke has recruited the Pointer Sisters and Whitney Houston. All of which raises a profound question: Which brand would Elvis have chosen...
...shotgun were recently used in stickups of a convenience store and a fast-food outlet in that north Texas city. Police also note apprehensively a tendency among all types of criminals not just to carry guns but to use them rather than submit to arrest. Says Houston Police Officer Al Baker: "Just about everybody committing a crime has a gun. Not cheap Saturday-night specials, but guns they can count on. And they're willing to shoot it out rather than go to jail...
...Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, Marguerite Michaels, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Cristina Garcia, S.C. Gwynne, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...