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Houston's bargain-price land and labor have lured dozens of companies, including small steel mills, toolmakers and clothing manufacturers. The cost of office space, at $15 per sq. ft. (compared with $43 in Manhattan), is among the lowest in the U.S., and the median $69,000 price for a single-family home is about 30% below the U.S. average. At the same time, aggressive promotion has helped Houston keep its newcomers close to home. When fast-growing Compaq Computer hinted that it might pick another locale for a 4,000-worker plant expansion, community leaders assembled a $7.7 million...
...Hungarian revolution of 1956. When Soviet forces crushed the rebellion, Czena, then 20, escaped by slipping out the back door of his grandmother's house in rural Kunagota just as the Hungarian secret police arrived to arrest him. Now the owner of Iron Masters, a manufacturer of structural steel and decorative iron, Czena feels a swell of pride in the political and economic changes taking place in his homeland. Czena plans to take part by building a steelworks there, but he readily concedes that he is motivated more by patriotism than by his interest in profits. "To tell...
...ending falls completely flat when Arnold returns to his old standby job as indestructible Terminator. He bends steel bars; he rips people's arms off; he shoots really big guns; yeah, yeah, yeah, we've seen it all before...
...left shoulders. The pads cradle the saws and, like trivets, shield the men from the hot blades that would burn their flesh through their flannel shirts. Their pants legs are tattered so that if they are suddenly snagged, the material will tear rather than hold. They do not wear steel-tipped shoes for fear that if a massive limb falls on their feet, it may turn the metal down and sever their toes. Better that their toes be crushed than pinched...
...next day thousands of miners, brought to the capital from towns as far as 250 miles away, took control of the city. Wielding clubs and steel pipes, they set up roadblocks and demanded identity documents, savagely beating anyone suspected of opposing the government. By the time calm returned, at least four people had been killed and hundreds wounded...