Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas does not. Fort Worth is Texas. Dallas in many ways is not. "Dallas is so smug, so pretentious," writes Greene. "The rest of Texas hates Dallas." Other Texans see Dallas as the place where the dry-goods salesmen from the East climbed off the stagecoaches and set up shop. Houston, good old earthy Houston, attracted the wildcatters. Houston has oil. Dallas does not. Dallas has class and flaunts it; Houston has money and is learning manners...
...only have eyes for stray spectators trying to pass through the chain-link fence. A female hurdler sprints along one side of the track. Lewis, his coach Tom Tellez, and Carl's friend Kirk Baptiste, a University of Houston sophomore who will run the 200 meter, set up shop on the opposite side. "Carl, go grab the tape measure!" Tellez yells from the stands. Lewis ambles over to the tape...
...wife Marta had just defected from the Rumanian team during an American tour. They walked into the New York office of the Department of Immigration and Naturalization with no assets other than the suitcases in their hands and a world of gymnastics knowledge in their heads. They opened shop in Houston. A year later, having met Karolyi at a meet, Mary Lou and her parents packed her bags and drove 24 hours to Texas. "It was at Christmas time," Mary Lou recalls. "Leaving home was so hard...
Patrick R. Sorrento, Crimson shop foreman for 17 years, said of the new system. "I think its great. I hope it works the way it's supposed to." When asked if it would improve the newspaper, he responded. "It better...
Those who have not been downtown recently will find even it has been spruced up. At the Midnight Mission on Los Angeles Street, the stubbly men are listing with great formality. A rental shop donated about 200 out-of-fashion tuxedos to the image of the city. If nothing else, foreign visitors must concede, no where in the world are the bums better dressed...