Southwest went after routes such as Houston to Kansas City or Nashville to Phoenix.
More will be shifting from the high-priced, low-growth big metros for opportunity cities such as Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Raleigh and Charlotte.
Yet even among biggest metros the biggest growth has been among lower-cost, until fairly recently largely native-born, regions such as Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta.
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In cities such as Chicago, Houston, and Seattle, during peak commute times travelers have to allow twice as long as they normally would if they want to be sure to arrive on time.
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Moreover, a number of the year's deaths caused us to catch our breath, including the tragic passings of such notables as Whitney Houston, Levon Helm and Dick Clark.
In fact, the American Community Survey reveals that between 2007 and 2009 college graduates generally gravitated toward lower-cost, less dense markets such as Austin, Houston and Nashville than to the highly constrained, denser ones.
The pessimists argue that for all its construction boom (William Penn's statue, once setting a limit to any building's height, became a relative dwarf more than a decade ago), Philadelphia is still a laggard, slowed down by a history of outdated habits and infrastructure that does not apply to sunbelt cities such as Atlanta or Houston.
Dr. BRUCE BUCHANAN (University of Texas Professor, Department of Government): Basically, that is due to the rules of the Democratic party that attach penalties to districts with low voter turnout in the last two statewide elections and it privileges those in high Democratic turnout districts, such as in Austin and in Houston and in Dallas, in some cases as many as two to one.
Neiman owns choice real estate in wealthy places such as San Francisco and Houston.
As such, officials in Houston (and Austin) have a unique opportunity to confront these companies behind closed doors and persuade them to abandon their business in Iran.
Students in cities such as Chicago, Atlanta and Houston posted double-digit gains on several exams since 2002, helping close the chasm between their performance and that of districts nationwide.
Mr Morrison highlighted changes such as a new unit in Houston focused on monitoring wells being drilled offshore to watch for signs of trouble: a function that he said had no parallel in other companies.
But for now, the clearest beneficiaries of the war have been construction and oil services firms, such as San Francisco-based Bechtel and Houston-based Halliburton (nyse: HAL - news - people ), which have secured major contracts to help rebuild Iraq and its oil industry.
Which is why, during the trials, a group of doctors led by Robert Grossman of the Methodist Hospital, Houston, will monitor such things as the participants' bone density, respiratory function and cardiovascular systems, all of which are expected to improve when someone is no longer stuck in a wheelchair.
Cities such as Raleigh, Charlotte, Austin, Dallas and Houston enjoy among the country's fastest growth rates in the under-15 population.
Again, Dan, the process that is gone through on many of these steps is -- and Secretary Chu and Dr. McNutt and others have spent days and days and days in Houston, particularly around big events such as this one with the sealing cap and the Helix Producer coming online.
They point to cities such as Charlotte in North Carolina and Salt Lake City in Utah: places that have grown as fast as Houston and Dallas and yet have managed to improve their air.
He says growing up listening to his mother sing in Houston, Texas, helped shape his appreciation for various musical forms such as jazz, rock, and hip-hop that he now incorporates into his own work.
Wilson and Cowie leave it to you to notice such tiny details as the sign over the pay phone in the waiting room of a Houston bus station that says "Colored Only, " or the fact that the people in the room are reading Ebony, not Life.
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Just as George W. Bush knocked off formidable Democrats such as Anne Richards and sitting Vice-President Al Gore, Perry defeated two Texas icons, Houston Mayor Bill White and Sen.
As such, Shoemaker expects that Chinese fans will continue to support Lin when he begins playing for the Houston Rockets this fall.
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