Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scores of banks and savings and loan associations have joined forces with other institutions. Last week the fever spread all the way from New York City to Texas. First, Chemical New York, whose $56 billion in assets make it the seventh largest U.S. bank holding company, agreed to acquire Houston's Texas Commerce Bancshares (assets: $18.9 billion) for $1.19 billion. If completed, the merger will be among the biggest in U.S. banking history and will create the fourth largest bank company, behind Citicorp, BankAmerica and Chase Manhattan. One day after that deal became public, two large Dallas institutions, healthy Republic...
Senior Troy Houston said of the protest: "For four years, nothing has happened. There's a lot of frustration shown in going beyond your basic rally...
...percentage of profits for his tips, and subsequently the two agreed on a $2.4 million lump-sum payment. The SEC's complaint detailed a number of stock-trading situations in which Boesky had profited illegally to the tune of "more than $50 million." Among the stocks cited: Nabisco Brands, Houston Natural Gas, General Foods, Union Carbide and Boise Cascade...
...dropped from $32 a barrel to $9, the Texas economy went dry -- and just about everything that Connally and Barnes touched turned bad. Their $14 million, 14-story office building in Houston, 80% vacant, was foreclosed on and sold at auction. A swanky housing development, Triple Crown condominiums in Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex., is the target of a foreclosure suit. More than a quarter of the 212 lots in Austin's plush estates of Barton Creek sit unsold. A creditor has sued to foreclose on four shopping centers; a fifth has already been lost...
...Cathy Booth, Dean Brelis, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Thomas McCarroll, 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, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman, Cristina Garcia...