Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a white goatee, he plays the woolly renegade to what he calls "the coat-and-tie boys" who surround Bush. He is gargantuan in his appetites -- for food, amusement, combat and attention. In a fight with two leather-jacket types in a Houston hotel lobby in 1984, he broke one man's wrist and tossed the other man into the lobby fountain. Just last week, annoyed that no one had repaired a bowed table in Bush campaign offices, Ailes walked into a roomful of aides, grabbed the conference table and flipped it over. He nurtures his pugnacious image...
...prosecutors say they have uncovered a pattern of misdeeds spurred by greed. "People got into the J.R. Ewing syndrome," says Henry Oncken, the U.S. Attorney in Houston. "The more they made, the more they got caught up in making more." Some S and Ls that believe they were plundered by their officers are taking them to court. Dallas-based Sunbelt Savings Association is suing former Chairman Edwin McBirney III and other ex-managers for $630 million. The suit alleges in part that McBirney paid "excessive commissions and fees" to friends and relatives. In one instance, McBirney is accused of allowing...
...bank fraud rises, law-enforcement officials are struggling to respond. The Justice Department has set up a 50-member squad of attorneys, FBI agents and IRS investigators in Dallas to dig up evidence, while a 25-person FBI team is working out of the U.S. courthouse building in Houston. In Los Angeles, 50 FBI agents and ten prosecutors are looking into 273 cases, 140 of which involve losses greater than $250,000. "We have more cases than we know what to do with," says U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner in Los Angeles. "We are stretched thin." If what investigators have found...
...made model. Today 5 million Americans ride mountain bikes, compared with 200,000 in 1983, and the BFA expects the total to climb 70% in 1988. Despite the name, more than two-thirds are used by cyclists bent on surviving the local potholes. Says Sam Silver, co-owner of Houston's Bikes & Backpacks: "It's kind of the urban assault vehicle...
...Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Margot Hornblower, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda 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: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Jeanne McDowell, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...