Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Celtics finally found their legs last night, running past the Houston Rockets 109-80 to move within a game of clinching their 14th National Basketball Association championship...
...Celtics meet the Rockets again tomorrow night, this time in Houston; and unless Houston finds some way to rein the Boston fast break, the series--which currently stands at 3-2--will end there...
...native of Union Springs, Ala., Blount, 60, formed his company in 1946 after wartime service as a B-29 bomber pilot. Along with his brother Houston, who later left the business, he started by investing $28,000 to buy four Caterpillar earthmovers. Blount soon gained a national reputation for tackling jobs that were uniquely challenging and thus uncommonly profitable. Among his more memorable monuments: Kennedy Space Center's Launch Site 39A-from which the space shuttle Columbia took off, an underground convention center in Cleveland, atomic research laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Government's maximum-security...
...Texas electronics firm recently hired a Georgia executive who falsely claimed degrees from Georgia Tech and the Harvard Business School. Asks John Kelly, personnel director of Tenneco, a Houston-based oil company: "What do you do when someone is doing a good job and you've found a fabrication? If he is finding oil, do you fire...
...batting craftsman, Ken Singleton, went into May with a .471 average, 25 hits in 53 at bats, including at one point ten hits in a row. The average of Kansas City's George Brett, who chased .400 into the final week of the season last year: .208. The Houston Astros, with the National League's best pitching staff in 1980, managed to win just seven of their first 19 games in 1981, while giving up 50 runs. That was two more games than a pudgy 20-year-old marvel for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Fernando Valenzuela...