Word: pizazz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the time I simply put the books in the small pocket of my backpack. To add a little pizazz, I put them right on top of the main pocket a couple of times. Beginning to think that I was charmed with luck, I even had a friend...
...exodus from New York is no more than a trickle. But it could become a flood if the fear of crime begins to overshadow the city's unique combination of pizazz and opportunity. Unchecked violence has already dulled the luster of the Big Apple. The daunting task before its leaders is to prevent it from rotting to the core...
...that pizazz, however, is only frosting on the cake for Houston. The city is in the third year of a brisk economic recovery that is transforming the fourth largest U.S. city (pop. 1.7 million) from a freewheeling oil-and-gas town to a more broadly based cosmopolitan center. Energy still constitutes 60% of the economy, but that is down from 83% in 1981. Boasts Mayor Kathy Whitmire: "We are no longer a one-industry town...