Steven M. Sweat, Personal Injury Lawyers, APC
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. . . . Houston is one of few United States cities with permanent professional resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera (Houston Grand Opera) ballet (Houston Ballet) music (Houston Symphony Orchestra) and theater (The Alley Theatre Theatre Under the Stars). Houston is also home to folk artists art groups and various small progressive arts organizations, Some of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S history have impacted Texas a hurricane in 1875 killed about 400 people in Indianola followed by another hurricane in 1886 that destroyed the town These events allowed Galveston to take over as the chief port city the 1900 Galveston hurricane subsequently devastated that city killing about 8,000 people or possibly as many as 12,000 This makes it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S history in 2017 Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Rockport as a Category 4 Hurricane causing significant damage there the storm stalled over land for a very long time allowing it to drop unprecedented amounts of rain over the Greater Houston area and surrounding counties the result was widespread and catastrophic flooding that inundated hundreds of thousands of homes Harvey ultimately became the costliest hurricane worldwide causing an estimated $198.6 billion in damage surpassing the cost of Hurricane Katrina, The Astro Spiral car jump was performed January 12 1972 by Chick Galiano of J.M Productions' Hell Drivers This stunt was later performed in the 1974 James Bond film the Man With the Golden Gun.
Obesity also has substantial impacts on the economy in Texas Obesity costs Texas businesses $9.5 billion annually. 41% of this is due to obesity-related healthcare costs 17% is due to absenteeism and 37% is due to presenteeism. Because the Houston Independent School District was slow to desegregate public schools on June 1 1970 the Federal officials struck the HISD plan down and forced it to adopt zoning laws This was 16 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v Board of Education which determined that segregated schools were inherently unequal Racial tensions over integration of the schools continued Some Hispanic Americans felt they were being discriminated against when they were being put with only African-Americans as part of the desegregation plan so many took their children out of the schools and put them in huelgas or protest schools until a ruling in 1973 satisfied their demands, In 1912 the Rice Institute (now Rice University) opened in the West University area.
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Steven M. Sweat, Personal Injury Lawyers, APC
We are not the lawyers on the back of the bus or front of the billboard. We are real personal injury lawyers providing personal service!