Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston's Southeast Tactical Response Unit personified zeal and derring-do: the nine police officers smashed crack houses and nabbed drug dealers, racking up 500 arrests in two years. But last week prosecutors moved to throw out more than 100 pending cases, as all nine officers stood suspended for allegedly falsifying records, planting evidence and lying in court to win convictions...
...hours takes effect. The carrier intends to circumvent the rule by organizing as a private charter service and charging $10 for membership (family rate: $20). Entrepreneur Kay Cohlmia, 53, and Colleagues Glenn Herndon, 47, and Daniel Cuozzo, 43, smokers all, plan 14 round-trip commuter flights a day between Houston and Dallas. Other Southwest cities are to be added later. The airline's tail fins will be adorned by neither the Marlboro man nor the Surgeon General's warning, since the club will lease aircraft and crews from other carriers...
...more significant were Reagan's promises to encourage private-sector participation. Commercial space firms, for example, were assured that federal agencies would buy their launch services. Companies across the country saw the new policy as an important symbolic move. "It's great news," said Bruce Jackson, a Houston space-engineering consultant. "It's a shot in the arm, and it will snowball." But without long-term funding, presidential promises mean little. Said Consultant Christopher Kraft, former head of the Johnson Space Center: "The proof of the pudding is, Where's the bucks...
...Angelo, Mary Cronin, Margot Hornblower, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
Connally's homily about Texas' being a great place to save may ring a bit hollow to another Houston institution, First City Bancorp. The company disclosed last week that it expects to post a 1987 loss of $1.1 billion, among the biggest ever for a U.S. bank...