Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas oil patch may still be in a horrible slump, but the mood in Houston last weekend was anything but downbeat. As fireworks exploded overhead, city officials opened the $175 million George R. Brown Convention Center, an ultramodern red, white and blue facility with enough floor space to cover 20 football fields. The hall, the eighth largest U.S. convention center, can accommodate up to 35,000 conventioneers. It is expected to help revitalize Houston's economy by pumping $300 million into local businesses every year and creating up to 10,000 jobs in the area. Already, 18 conventions, including...
Originally scheduled to take place on the new North House terrace, the party was relocated to a patch of grass at the southern end of the Quad, because the terrace is under construction and off-limits to students. The rest of the lawn is still a giant mud hole and mountain...
...glitzy gallery is part of the FSLIC's effort to unload some $408 million worth of properties inherited from failed thrift institutions, mostly in the troubled oil-patch states. If investors cannot find something on the selling floor, they might want to bid for the gallery itself. The twelve-story office building that houses the center is available for $12 million...
...course, a hard-edged manager may be just what First City needs. Despite a partial recovery in petroleum prices this year, the Texas economy is still stagnant and oil-patch lending remains a risky business. The FDIC has already rescued eleven Texas banks, while 38 others went belly up. Last week, as Abboud set up temporary quarters in a First City Tower conference room, he said he will aggressively seek new business, and predicted that First City will be profitable "very shortly" after the influx of FDIC and private funds. "As this bank emerges, it's going to be formidable...
...Conn., northeast of Manhattan, the average cost has skyrocketed incredibly, from $467,500 to $1.2 million since the summer of 1986. Prices are not rising that fast in heartland suburbs, but almost every region of the U.S. has a strong luxury-housing market, with the exception of depressed oil-patch states like Texas and Oklahoma...