Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audiences even before last month's visit. His two so-called Citizens' Summits -- satellite-linked question-answer sessions between studio audiences in the U.S. and Soviet Union, co-moderated by Donahue and Soviet Journalist Vladimir Pozner -- were telecast in the U.S.S.R. last year, as was a Donahue segment featuring Houston Biomedical Researcher Arnold Lockshin and his family, who defected to the Soviet Union last October. But Donahue's aggressive, confrontational interviewing style seemed to confuse and anger many Soviets, who saw it as evidence of hostility...
...Broadway as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas but known to customers from far beyond tiny La Grange as the Chicken Ranch, the most familiar bordello in the U.S. has been out of business since 1973. But now La Grange (pop. 3,768) is clucking over plans by Houston Contractor Todd Hoffman to erect a museum on the site and hold a "Chicken Fest," featuring big-name entertainers and a barbecue cookoff with a $40,000 first prize. Mayor Charlie Jungmichel has called Hoffman's proposal a "slap in the face to the people of our county. I think...
...Since the Democrats are to begin their convention on July 17, the clause prevents New Orleans from being host to both parties. Kirk charged that the G.O.P. was holding New Orleans "hostage." But the Republicans held the city to its contract, and the Democrats are now leaning toward Houston...
...Boyce, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Jack E. White, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William J. Mitchell Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, B. Russell Leavitt, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Marcia Gauger Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Edwin M. Reingold, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman, Cristina Garcia...
...more have to be raised as well." Higher labor costs to employers, he contends, will lead to higher prices and less service for consumers. Moreover, employers would fire laborers to make ends meet. If the minimum is raised, says Clifford Fry, an economist and chairman of the University of Houston's finance department, "companies will reduce payrolls and get rid of marginal workers. This will keep the poor and unskilled from being employed...