Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Browns move into a tie with Houston for the AFCWest lead, at 6-3 and the Bears slip back to 3-6 in the NFC Central...
Halloween in Houston...
Before the 70 first-graders at Stephens Elementary School north of Houston could perform a Halloween pageant for their families last week, Democratic Congressman Bob Eckhardt and Republican Challenger Jack Fields, 28, put on their own show...
...companies, fighting for continued price controls on some categories of oil and for a strong windfall-profits tax. This year these positions have come back to haunt him. Oil executives and many of the Sunbelt migrants to his district dislike Eckhardt's liberalism. But in east Houston, where most of his district's 30% blacks and Hispanics live, Eckhardt has strong backing from those who work in the huge refineries. As he said last week at a union hall while introducing Senator Edward Kennedy, who was on a Texas swing for President Carter: "My supporters make the riches...
...Schmidt enjoyed the opposite fate. In the thrill-an-inning playoffs against Houston, he had been the goat, hitting .208 (five hits in 24 at-bats) and striking out twice with the bases loaded in the final game. The Major League home-run leader during the regular sea son with 48, he regained his touch during the World Series, hitting .381, bashing two homers and driving in the winning run in two of the Phillies' four victories. That resurrection led Schmidt to mystical ruminations: ";It was destined for us to win this thing. We overcame too many obstacles, came...