Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next stop was Houston, Texas--not the most traditional of hockey breeding grounds...
Bush spent the day in Houston savoring his 16-state primary sweep and the roughly 600 delegates they brought. The outlook for Illinois wasn't bad either, as Gov. James Thompson was backing the vice president and Sen. Bob Dole (R.-Kan.)'s own campaign polls gave Bush the lead...
Should billboards stand in the way of progress? The question faces the frustrated citizens of traffic-choked Houston, where much needed $800 million highway improvement projects planned for the next five years have been indefinitely delayed because of a bizarre dispute among the city, the state of Texas and the local billboard industry. The state's highway commission, which had planned the construction, needs to move 123 billboards along various routes to new locations. But that would violate a tough antibillboard law enacted by the city council in 1980. The ordinance prohibits the erection of any new billboards in Houston...
...things stand, either the city will have to make some exceptions to its antibillboard law or the state will have to pay millions to the sign owners. So far, neither side has budged, and the traffic jams in Houston just keep getting worse...
Even a barbecue capital like Houston has a Macrobiotic Center with a cooking school and a restaurant that, despite the pointed absence of meat, poultry, caffeine, sugar and alcohol, draws 120 patrons a day. Three-quarters of the customers, says the center's co-director, Janis Tirapelli Jamail, 34, are "professional people making money and taking care of themselves and their life-style." It requires some dedication, since more time is needed to prepare grains and beans than to throw a chop on the broiler. Jamail's husband Randall, a lawyer, has been converting yuppie friends by boasting that...