Between 2001 and 2007, the number of patent litigation filings in East Texas rose by 1, 124%.
By the end of the century, it would supposedly feel like summer in east Texas.
Recent discoveries in gas zones in Appalachia and east Texas make Cabot's properties more attractive.
Jones, nicknamed "The Possum" for his resemblance to the animal, was born in 1931 in east Texas.
Unlike the rest of Texas, which breaks down along Anglo-Latino lines, east Texas is almost wholly black-and-white.
The family moved back to the east Texas town of Kilgore within a few years of his birth.
In Longview, the heart of east Texas pickup culture, car dealers say 70% of their sales are pickups.
In February, 1903, Seaman Knapp arrived in the East Texas town of Terrell to talk to the local farmers.
The astronauts died February 1 when Columbia disintegrated over east Texas, just minutes before it was to land in Florida.
That distinction belongs to Martin Dies, a congressman from East Texas who invented the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1938.
Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), stout and soft-spoken, works as an assistant funeral director in the small town of Carthage, in East Texas.
Skyonic has been testing its contraption at a pilot plant in East Texas, grabbing exhaust from a coal plant that doesn't scrub pollutants.
Nonetheless, its storm surge -- joined by heavy wind, rain and tornadoes -- left a swath of destruction from east Texas to Alabama.
Mr. Jones grew up in East Texas oil country where his father, George Washington Jones, was fitfully employed, Mr. Jones wrote in a memoir.
He and Linklater, who grew up in East Texas, collaborated on a screenplay, and, after more than a decade, finally got the picture made.
On August 25th, in the small east Texas town of Rusk, trucks brought in thousands of bales of hay donated by farmers in Kansas.
But by then the oil shortage of the 1920s had turned into an oil glut, thanks to new discoveries in places like east Texas.
There was also drilling in Oklahoma City, and in East Texas.
Binder's 1997 documentary about an endurance contest at an east Texas car dealership that offered a free pickup to whoever could keep a hand on it the longest.
The knee-jerk reaction of the national media, as the story broke, was to present east Texas as a white-trash outpost whose public offices are occupied by closet bigots.
Lago Agrio was named for Sour Lake, the East Texas town where Texaco was established, and, as the oil camp grew into a boom town, pipeline spills became common.
Louis research firm, says 45% of patent cases that went to a contested verdict (as opposed to settling) were won by the plaintiff in East Texas, versus 25% nationwide.
And this CD was a dedication to that spiritual healing power that he felt growing up in East Texas because there was one of these trees in his family's yard.
What represents the town, and makes it so typical, is something much more subtle: a thousand small prejudices and slights that blacks in east Texas feel, but whites rarely notice.
Tex spoke with Forbes writer Steven Bertoni about how he saw his first big gusher at age 10 when his father Monty Moncrief sunk a well in the East Texas field.
The title of this CD is called "The Pecan Tree" because the pecan tree, which in his case, he was from East Texas, which is also where my family is from.
As mentioned last week, several projections indicate that the Eagle Ford Shale is very likely to ultimately surpass the East Texas Field as the largest oil field ever discovered in the lower 48 states.
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Pipeline projects, such as Keystone XL, get singled out for truly special treatment by the Occupy Anti-Development Movement, with b- and c-list celebrities sitting in East Texas trees for days at a time, and activists like Bill McKibben, Sierra Club Exec.
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