Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driveway and savaging her so badly that she required 100 stitches. It snapped and tore at an unemployed man as he watched the July 4 fireworks in Rochester; last week he died from his multiple injuries, including a 15-in. wound from calf to thigh. And in Atlanta, Houston and Ramsay, Mich., it has seized small children like rag dolls and mauled them to death in a frenzy of bloodletting...
...violence? "The dogs are almost like an extension of the owners' egos," says Orville Walls, a Philadelphia veterinarian. "The owners think, 'I may be low man on the economic totem pole, but I have the meanest, toughest dog on the street.' " Owning a pit bull, says Robert Armstrong, Houston's chief animal controller, "is a warning to others to stay off the sidewalk." Randall Lockwood of the Humane Society notes that the animals have become increasingly popular as dog fighting has moved from rural areas into cities. They appeal "to the disfranchised and the unemployed. The owners themselves are often...
...Houston...
...bull market of the 1980s, which will turn five years old on Aug. 13. They have come back with growing confidence to the stock market they fled during the bearish 1970s. "The longer the bull market goes on, the more believers there are," says Charles Neuhaus, a broker for Houston's Underwood, Neuhaus. During the first half of this decade, the number of Americans who own shares in individual companies or stock-market mutual funds increased from 30.2 million to more than 47 million, according to a study by the New York Stock Exchange. While half those shareholders own stock...
SHOW BUSINESS: Whitney Houston reigns at the top of the pop- music charts...