Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rivalry intensified in the 1970s as an oil-industry boom lifted Houston to new peaks of wealth and power-and new acts of brazenness-while Dallas, long the more prosperous of the two cities, watched with chagrin. Today Dallas is on the rise again, but Houston is not exactly somnolent. In a move that has made Dallas aghast, a group of Houston boosters is offering college football's Southwest Conference $3 million in cash to lure the postseason Cotton Bowl game from Dallas, where it has been played for the past 45 years. "They have more chance of moving...
...with services. It's obvious the city hasn't kept pace with growth." The city may have learned its lesson. Last week voters overwhelmingly elected Kathryn Whitmire, 35, the city controller, as mayor. Whitmire promises a prudent, businesslike approach to "the problems that have arisen from the wealth we have...
Stressing that it is more important to "build up a treasury of spirit than a treasury of wealth." Mexican scholar and writer Juan Negrin said last night the Huichol Indians of northwest Mexico possess a "nearly ideal" non-materialistic culture...
Steinberg and his partners made scant effort to hide their wealth. At restaurants they ordered $400 bottles of wine. At Steinberg's $400,000 home were parked a Maserati, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari and the inevitable Rolls-Royce. One of Steinberg's partners gave a Mercedes to a girl he barely knew...
...despite the enormous wealth he acquired through sales of his stories, Wodehouse remained a man of simple pleasures. Like one of his most famous characters, the lovable bachelor-vagabond Bertie Wooster, happiness for Wodehouse meant comfortable slippers, a good pipe, and a well-mixed highball...