Home prices continued to tumble in April, falling 18.1% from a year earlier -- but the change from March narrowed sharply, indicating that housing markets may be starting to turn.
• On a break from her tour, Jessica Simpson caught up with her old Sunday school teachers over cocktails at Bolla Bar inside Dallas's Stoneleigh Hotel. There with her mom Tina, the singer sipped vodka sodas and spent two hours chatting. "She was very sweet," a source says, "and seemed to be in a good mood."
The home price plunge stayed on a record pace this summer, according to a widely watched gauge of national real-estate markets released Tuesday.
Northern Texas has been getting more rare earth tremors, one day after several minor earthquakes made Halloween memorable
Anita Fancon and her husband want to fly from Tucson, Arizona, to Bordeaux, France in business class. They have the miles they need, and they've already cashed them in. But do they have the seats? American Airlines says they do, except on the flight from Dallas to London. Is there anything Fancon can do to secure the seats she's already paid 180,000 miles for?
The confetti cannon went off early and the crowd at the American Airlines Center partied as if the home team had just captured the Stanley Cup, not just a first round series. You can hardly blame the fans in Dallas. It's been a long time since the Stars have gotten this far.
A police officer was killed Friday morning in a motorcycle accident as Sen. Hillary Clinton's motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas, police said.
Dear FSB: I'm looking at buying a building in Dallas and have picked one out. I just started my LLC here this year, though I've been self-employed for 13 years in New York. Is there anything I can do to make sure that I can get the loan? Would I be able to get a grant? Are there any good books that you would suggest? The loan would be for $250,000. My credit score is 780. I do not own a house, but I do not owe any money. Thanks.
BIGGEST CLIMB: Dallas (7 to 3), Montreal (10 to 6), NYR (22 to 18), Atlanta (25 to 21) BIGGEST FALL: Columbus (19 to 25)
Dear FSB: I am currently putting together a business plan for a tea room in Dallas. The local SBDC (Small Business Development Center) office is helping get this project off the ground. I have allocated funds for about 30% of the startup amount, consisting of stocks, mutual funds and liquid assets. I have no experience in the food industry, just my passion for food and tea and my determination to succeed. In preparation for this project I am currently attending tea seminars and working to get certified for food handling.
Home prices continued to tumble in April, falling 18.1% from a year earlier -- but the change from March narrowed sharply, indicating that housing markets may be starting to turn.
• On a break from her tour, Jessica Simpson caught up with her old Sunday school teachers over cocktails at Bolla Bar inside Dallas's Stoneleigh Hotel. There with her mom Tina, the singer sipped vodka sodas and spent two hours chatting. "She was very sweet," a source says, "and seemed to be in a good mood."
The home price plunge stayed on a record pace this summer, according to a widely watched gauge of national real-estate markets released Tuesday.
Northern Texas has been getting more rare earth tremors, one day after several minor earthquakes made Halloween memorable
Anita Fancon and her husband want to fly from Tucson, Arizona, to Bordeaux, France in business class. They have the miles they need, and they've already cashed them in. But do they have the seats? American Airlines says they do, except on the flight from Dallas to London. Is there anything Fancon can do to secure the seats she's already paid 180,000 miles for?
The confetti cannon went off early and the crowd at the American Airlines Center partied as if the home team had just captured the Stanley Cup, not just a first round series. You can hardly blame the fans in Dallas. It's been a long time since the Stars have gotten this far.
A police officer was killed Friday morning in a motorcycle accident as Sen. Hillary Clinton's motorcade made its way through downtown Dallas, police said.
Dear FSB: I'm looking at buying a building in Dallas and have picked one out. I just started my LLC here this year, though I've been self-employed for 13 years in New York. Is there anything I can do to make sure that I can get the loan? Would I be able to get a grant? Are there any good books that you would suggest? The loan would be for $250,000. My credit score is 780. I do not own a house, but I do not owe any money. Thanks.
BIGGEST CLIMB: Dallas (7 to 3), Montreal (10 to 6), NYR (22 to 18), Atlanta (25 to 21) BIGGEST FALL: Columbus (19 to 25)
Dear FSB: I am currently putting together a business plan for a tea room in Dallas. The local SBDC (Small Business Development Center) office is helping get this project off the ground. I have allocated funds for about 30% of the startup amount, consisting of stocks, mutual funds and liquid assets. I have no experience in the food industry, just my passion for food and tea and my determination to succeed. In preparation for this project I am currently attending tea seminars and working to get certified for food handling.
Have you ever been watching television and thought, "Wow, this soap opera is so good it could cause the downfall of a corrupt communist regime," or even, "I bet one day this show is going to send the first woman into space"? Well, maybe you're not giving the boob tube enough credit.
Have you ever been watching television and thought, "Wow, this soap opera is so good it could cause the downfall of a corrupt communist regime," or even, "I bet one day this show is going to send the first woman into space"? Well, maybe you're not giving the boob tube enough credit.
BIGGEST CLIMB: Dallas (22 to 7) BIGGEST FALL: Tampa Bay (10 to 23)
I don't want to bore you with an old timer's prattle, so I'll say it quickly and then move on. Doesn't it seem to you that there are an awful lot of bad teams right now? Partly through injuries or the failure to lay in the necessary depth to cover them, partly through that ultra conservative, "please God, let us find a way to win," school of coaching, partly through just bad execution. But there are things out there that just don't seem nice.
Musings, observations and the occasional insight in the aftermath of an NFL weekend that so rudely interrupts our baseball-crazed revelry here in Boston ....
With Hispanics being the nation's largest minority group, the general assumption among many political and social pundits is that they will align themselves with African-Americans to represent a potent political force on the local, state and national level.
This story originally appeared in the Jan. 23, 1978 issue of Sports Illustrated.
This story was originally published in the Jan. 8, 1968 issue of Sports Illustrated.
Justin Randall began to wonder if he had picked the wrong day to drive his convertible through downtown Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, as debris rained down from an explosion at a facility that sells acetylene gas.
U.S. economic activity expanded further in June and early July, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday, as slower housing markets contrasted with improvements in manufacturing and commercial real estate.
An increasingly trendy theory holds that the ticket to attracting and retaining the educated and upwardly mobile is a big dose of urban cool: Think open-air cafés where well-heeled retired boomers and twentysomething professionals gather after the theater to sip Pinot Grigio while looking out at a skyline defined by the latest creation of a world-renowned starchitect.
What's the fastest-growing American city with more than half a million people?
Nearly a million American youngsters, some as young as 6, rely on personal trainers to shape up, lose weight or improve in sports, according to figures from the nation's leading sports club association
A cheap, highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over the past two years, and authorities say they are hoping they can stop the fad before it spreads across the nation.
A month ago the Mavs were chasing 70 wins. Now they might be on the verge of making history of a far different sort.
I should have believed him.
With apologies to John Lennon: Imagine there's no conference/It's easy if you try.... In such a world, NBA playoff teams would be seeded 1 through 16 without regard to conference affiliation, meaning that the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks could meet the Phoenix Suns or the San Antonio Spurs (the second and third seeds, respectively) for the NBA championship. In such a world, we would not have to concern ourselves with the likes of the New Jersey Nets and the Orlando Magic, the bottom-feeders of the (L)Eastern Conference bracket.
In between the Final Four semis and the NCAA championship game, the NBA will offer a weekend infomercial of its playoffs to come. The most compelling matchups of April, May and June will be previewed by a trio of regular-season games on Sunday:
SPECIAL MARKET REPORT: A strange feeling has taken over this section of the galaxy. What?!? You mean markets don't go up forever? You mean that small little bubbly markets like the Philippines and China (yes, China is a small stock market) can go up and down 8% or 9% in a single day? That before this crashette, the Dow had been setting records some 30 out of the past 95 trading days? Yes, yes and yes!.....Oh, and Alan Greenspan? Could you please put a sock in it? We simply don't need to hear from you now that you aren't Fed Chief...Shouldn't you have the good sense and grace to just not comment about the economy? You may not mind undermining your successor, but we do!....Memo to Ms. Market: Behave!
Listen! Can you hear it? That crunching sound toward the rear of the pack.
Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you can turn things around and make them better.
How hot are the Suns? At week's end they were riding a 17-game win streak -- fifth-longest in NBA history. It follows an earlier 15-game run this season. In fact, were it not for an OT loss to the Wizards (Dec. 22) and a two-point loss at Dallas (Dec. 28), Phoenix could be looking at a 35-game win streak at this point.
No. The East is going to be wide open right to the finish, with the Pistons, Cavs, Bulls and Wizards battling it out for the best record until the final weeks. If I had to pick a team, I'd go with Detroit because of its starting five and its experience. But Chicago is learning to play together and has the depth and style of play to withstand injuries. The Bulls, with the hardest part of their schedule behind them, could be a good darkhorse candidate to finish with the best record and the No. 1 seed.
Is that all there was? Did the entire Bill Parcells in Dallas era add up to nothing more than a ho-hum 34-32 record and a pair of playoff losses in four years? Talk about much ado about very little. So much hype. So much hoopla. But a bit light on the fulfilled promise.
There may yet be a change in the way the NHL schedules games next season, but divisional realignment looks less likely than it did when the much-needed concept first was floated before Christmas.
The start of the new year brings a new (but familiar) team atop this week's Power Rankings. The Mavs, who took down the Suns last Thursday on Dirk Nowitzki's last-second shot, have returned to the top spot they owned for several weeks earlier this season. But can Dallas, riding a 10-game win streak through Monday, continue its red-hot play when it travels to San Antonio on Friday for a matchup with the Spurs?
A bus carrying elderly evacuees from a nursing home near Houston, Texas, caught fire and exploded Friday south of Dallas, killing at least 24 people and jamming a key evacuation route for people fleeing Hurricane Rita.
First the bad news: Long airport layovers are here to stay. With fewer planes flying but just as many people traveling, passengers now spend twice as much time in transit limbo as they did prior to...
AN ERRATIC SCHEDULE, heavy meals, day-long meetings--nothing is worse for your waistline than business travel. But dedicated health nuts have a new way to fight back. In June the Hotel Crescent Cou...
A major Islamic charity and seven of its key officials have been indicted on charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism with millions of dollars, federal officials announced Tuesday.
When it comes to real estate, there's one topic on everybody's mind these days: interest rates. Real estate has been unstoppable in recent years, thanks in no small part to ultracheap mortgages. Bu...
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - The unprecedented run of real estate has made millionaires out of people who've bought, sold and rented out property in the right places, at the right time.
One of the few good things about the sluggish economy has been the ability to rent prime office space on the cheap. But with the recovery gathering steam, your chance to cash in on the weakest mark...
A small plane crashed Thursday into two houses in Dallas, Texas, engulfing them in flames and killing the pilot and the sole passenger, officials said.
A quarter-century after deregulation rocked America's airlines, the pieces are finally in place for that tarnished experiment to deliver on its promise. The people who should have been in charge al...
Ten years ago grunge musicians and college-age Cassandras who had never held a day job preached that corporate America would crush their generation's soul and leave them without a pension plan. Fil...
It's hard to recall the exact moment the epiphany hit me during my recent mind-boggling tour of the Dallas sports-business scene. Was it while dot-com billionaire Mark Cuban was simultaneously lead...
As flocks of fledgling Web merchants are finding out the hard way, there's lots more to successful e-commerce than mouse clicks. To see how much more, look at the most challenging corner of busines...
What's so great about Dallas?
It's happened to almost everyone. You realize you haven't been happy at your job for a long while. Perhaps the work has gotten dull. Perhaps the boss has finally gone over the edge. Or not earning ...
Hotels in Hong Kong, rental rates in Raleigh-Durham, martinis in Milwaukee? We got 'em. Commute time in Cincinnati, BAs in Boston, lodging in London? Look no further. In the chart below, you'll fin...
Under extreme pressure to meet their commission goals, stockbrokers don't always do what's best for their clients. That, at least, is the view of Mark Dempsey, 33, who spent almost three years sell...
On a sun-bright March afternoon in North Hollywood, sandy-haired Texan Chad Linley bursts through the gray door marked coast to coast talent group. The office's eight phone lines are squawking, a s...
Jack Reichert, the CEO of Brunswick, says most avid boaters trade up three feet every three years. And we thought that was just the size of their fish stories. . .If you're a harried management per...
If you think ''creative destruction'' is just a quaint figure of speech from a dead Austrian economist, think again. Two recent studies of job formation by Donald A. Hicks, a political economist at...
Thank you for taking a lead in the effort to repeal the government's new 20% withholding tax on some pension payouts. As your December Editor's Notes made clear to me, the law is another slap in th...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Richard B. Stolley CORPORATE EDITOR Gilbert Rogin DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA John Papanek
So you think you have the measure of Ross Perot: tough, self-made billionaire, authoritarian populist and -- until mid-July's about-face -- presidential wannabe. You only know half of it. The part ...
The foundation of Perot's wealth is Electronic Data Systems, which he sold to | General Motors in 1984 for $2.5 billion. His personal share of the sale: $1.4 billion. Later GM paid him an additiona...
Rankings on access to quality labor and on pro-business attitude come from Moran Stahl & Boyer's survey of executives in America's 50 largest metropolitan areas. A rank of 1 is best, and 50 the wor...
When FORTUNE set out to find America's best cities for business this year, a trend was unmistakable: Cost has become far more important than it was in the Eighties. What companies want in a city ha...
A word to the would-be gigolo or bounder: Ginie Polo Sayles of Dallas, a former E.F. Hutton stockbroker and self-admitted shameless gold digger, offers seminars on ''How to Marry the Rich.'' Price:...
DOLLAR GENERAL When recession-battered consumers in the Southeast go bargain hunting, here's where they go. Dollar General, based in Scottsville, Kentucky, is a deeper than deep discounter of cloth...
Big Mo, a truck equipped with broadcasting equipment and topped by a 9-by-12- foot JumboTron giant TV screen from Sony, will have a starring role as the 105-year-old Texas State Fair beams into the...
This month, federal rules take effect to make money funds safer by capping maturities. Likely result: new, slightly riskier hybrids akin to short-term bond funds.And, Ted Turner's Airport Channel, ...
ASK A BUNCH OF CEOs about their favorite cities and you'll probably hear them evaluate urban life the same way anyone else would. They love San Francisco for the Bay and the restaurants, Seattle fo...
What will the world's biggest oil company take with it in the August move of its corporate headquarters from New York City to Dallas? Answer (in part): 1,637 chairs, 331 desks, 651 file cabinets, 5...
We have this funny feeling, somewhere in the zone between deja vu and incredulity, about the news on educational spending. Some part of the news keeps telling us that America's educational spenders...
''It's tough to find anybody in the apartment market who isn't walking around with a long face.'' So says Robert Sheehan, an economist at the National Apartment Association, a lobbying group, of an...
MORE THAN EVER, where you are determines how you do. Pity the poor fool with ) his headquarters in some mean-streets town, where office costs are out of sight and only the reckless venture out afte...
It's a familiar and frustrating scenario: You're at an airport pay phone, dialing furiously, and hear the final boarding call for your flight. Then you get a busy signal on that important call. Aaa...
In reading your July issue, I looked forward to the cover story and especially the article ''Where Would You Put $1,000 Now?'' in which you polled investment and entertainment celebrities about the...
Your June Retirement column cited National Gypsum Co. as one of two companies that recently decided not to replace terminated pension plans. The plans referred to were those of divisions that have ...
WEARY bank regulators and emissaries of Ronald O. Perelman deliberated late into the night last December 27 in the offices of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas. Finally, in a room bereft of Chri...
When mortgage rates fall and you start thinking about buying a new house or refinancing the one you own, don't be surprised if you find fewer lenders vying for your business. Last year's rising int...
Okay, the envelope, please. And the winner is . . . National Airport in Washington, D.C. National Airport? That's right, the homely little terminal our congressmen use to jet to and from the heartl...
Those good old days of fare wars and rock-bottom prices for business travelers are over (see Corporate Performance). The cost of air travel for business customers soared 30.5% last year, according ...
You've no doubt heard various experts blabbering about when the next U.S. recession will strike. Ignore them. In reality, slumps are more local than national. According to pollster Albert Sindlinge...
Question: What would inspire John Archer, 73, a retired Joseph Schlitz beer company executive who was hit by a car two years ago and told he would never walk again, to fly almost 1,000 miles to run...
Hard Rock Cafe PLC Waiting lines of tourists, kids, celebrities, and just plain folks have been a trademark of these popular joints almost since the first one opened across the road from Buckingham...
The Consumer Federation of America has just uncovered an unusually deceptive tactic used by a number of U.S. banks to overstate rates it pays on interest- bearing checking accounts. Take, for examp...
INVESTING in real estate, a hot topic of cocktail conversation for over a decade, has lost its sex appeal. Forget about four-to-one write-offs and quick doubles and triples on your money. In emascu...
House prices around much of the country have risen roughly 10% to 12% in the past year -- with two notable exceptions: prices melted in the Southwest, while they puffed up in the Northeast. For exa...
REAL ESTATE syndicator Craig Hall couldn't have built his $3-billion empire without big doses of energy and moxie. One day last year, when a secretary brought a phone into Hall's private office whe...
TEXANS ADMIRE independents, and not just the oil field variety. Lately they have been taking notice of FilmDallas, a small and innovative limited partnership with a $2.4-million kitty invested in p...
The Hunt brothers of Dallas have sold 90% of their silver holdings, ending a long love affair with the metal that cost them $2 billion. They fed 63 million ounces of their stake into the market gra...
Long a staple in movie theaters and video games, outer-space thrills are moving into amusement parks, which have been having an unexciting ride lately. In late October, InterActive Entertainment, a...
Dallas developer Trammell Crow's $97-million Infomart, the first of several computer marts going up around the U.S., was something of a test case for the concept (FORTUNE, February 4). So far, the ...
Like some antic used-car dealer's lot, the U.S. rental car industry these days is touting bargains galore. Want a Lincoln Town Car for about $40, just three-fifths the standard rate for plain gray ...
NO ONE HAS yet thrown real stones at Dallas's huge, new, glass Infomart, opening in late January. But some computer manufacturers and others in the industry have thrown verbal stones at the project...
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