Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about a shrinking pool of qualified workers. "Reform has been a sort of top-down initiative," says John Moore, chairman of the department of education at Trinity University in San Antonio. "Teachers were never brought into it." As a result, while progress was made, many reforms were misguided. In Houston, for instance, state rules requiring failing students to be tutored foundered because of problems in scheduling the sessions and the fact that many students failed to show...
...people lined up outside Houston's Immigration and Naturalization Service office had camped overnight with blankets and lawn chairs. At the Dallas INS office, a pregnant Hispanic woman stepped out of line into a bathroom and went into labor. Throughout the U.S. last month, 200,000 aliens rushed to apply for legal status before a yearlong amnesty program expires on May 4. To qualify, they must prove they were residing in the U.S. before...
...rough road to a dance like this," says Bill Ivey, 32, who runs the store. Ivey grew up behind the trading post, where his father was the storekeeper. At the time, he recalls, Lajitas had an official population of just seven, four of whom were Iveys. Now a Houston company has developed a clapboard tourist town around an old cavalry post nearby, and the population of Lajitas is about 100. "Back then, all my friends lived across the river," says Ivey, a bachelor, who lives behind the shop. "Now I've got ^ a few over here as well...
...Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Margot Hornblower, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin 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, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman
...Personally, I have a lot of respect for the Ivy League student-athletes," University of Houston Athletic Director Rudy Bavalos said. "They are basically students first, then athletes second...