But 600 miles west in Texas a drought was taking hold and wildfires raged.
In Texas a hospital must spend 4% of its revenue on charity care to stay nonprofit.
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Such gerrymandering can be extremely partisan when the majority party in a legislature draws districts that favour its candidates, as the Republicans did in Texas a decade ago.
In a huge win for backers of biofuels, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today denied a closely watched request to grant Texas a 50% waiver from a federal renewable fuel standard mandate.
When I'm governor, Texas will be a better place to live, Texas will be a better place to work, and Texas will be a better place to raise our children, so help me God.
In the case of Texas, other Big 12 Conference schools objected when they learned, thanks to a radio interview with an ESPN representative, the Longhorn Network planned to show high school football games, fearing that would give Texas a recruiting advantage.
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All of this would be impossible to prevent because if a California resident, for example, sued that Texas company in a California court, the Texas company remove the case to its home state citing the clause in the contract indicating all disputes were to be settle according to Texas law in a Texas court.
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"There used to be jokes about how a Democrat in Texas was a moderate Republican in Connecticut, " she says.
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In addition, they searched a home in Texas of a man whose name is similar to two hijackers, possibly a relation, and possibly the destination of these two other men.
This idea came from a bill written by a Texas Republican and a Massachusetts Democrat.
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One of the kidnapped Americans is a Texas man, a family member told CNN.
Ms. Barret, an avant-garde fashion designer herself, has traveled to a Texas ranch and a Polish castle seeking artists and design concepts.
If the materials are wildly ambitious and the prices insanely high, if these antler chairs and petrified bark tables are scaled for a Texas oligarch or a Middle Eastern potentate, Owens merely shrugs.
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Ironically enough, when Colt went into bankruptcy in 1844, a Texas Ranger named Walker met with Samuel Colt and helped him redesign the Texas Paterson as a heavier model called the Colt Walker.
Nearly a decade before internet-sensation Groupon gave consumers everywhere an opportunity to leverage the power of group purchasing, a small outfit in Texas provided a massively-scaled up version of this power to many of the largest electric utilities in North America.
In order to compete a bit with Texarkana, Texas, a 1977 Arkansas law exempts Texarkana, Arkansas, from the Arkansas state income tax.
With his planned 1999 startups -- a publication for paralegals in Texas and a nationwide daily for dealmakers -- Pollak is entering riskier territory.
While working at a free clinic in Galveston, Texas, a city with over 50% of its population uninsured, Vineet observed that patients kept coming back to the clinic primarily due to stress, diabetes, and depression.
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But both analysts and lawyers warn that using the first trial as a harbinger of what is to come is a risky strategy for investors, because Texas is a particularly plaintiff-friendly venue and a long process of appeals could result in a sharp reduction in the award's size.
But both analysts and lawyers still warn that using the first trial as a harbinger of what is to come is a risky strategy for investors, because Texas is a particularly plaintiff-friendly venue and a long process of appeals could result in a sharp reduction in the award's size.
Smaller outfits seldom have much of a cushion to buy extra feed, and Texas had a nasty drought last summer, too.
After Pierzynski's first homer for Texas, a two-out solo shot in the fourth that made it 2-1, Mitch Moreland pulled a 428-foot shot deep into the Texas bullpen in right-center field.
Some seek escape in their careers, but that is no longer an option for Leon, who early this year was forced to step down as a juvenile probation officer in Travis County, Texas, a position he had held for almost seven years.
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Texas was a battleground for the tort reform movement in the 1990s, with pro-business conservatives eventually winning control of the Texas Supreme Court and reversing the state's image as a haven for plaintiff lawyers with exotic new theories of damage.
It imagines us approaching a West Texas crossroad in a spirit of unfettered spontaneity.
It's about an endurance contest at a Texas car dealership offering a free pickup to whoever can keep their hands on it the longest.
Chief Justice Roberts, who might be considered a vote for upholding precedent, seemed skeptical the University of Texas had a plan that complied with Grutter.
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While Dodington relishes recapturing the city's past glory, he is nevertheless drawn to the dynamic changes in Shanghai, now home to some 20 million residents -- a far cry from his hometown hidden in the cornfields of central Texas with a population of 953.
Mr Frost's other assets include one of America's few female generals as his wife, a strong record on bringing defence contracts and other pork back to Texas, a relatively conservative record in Congress (he is best known for a tough law punishing child-molesters) and the fact that Mr Sessions is fairly strong meat even by Texas standards.
In 1997, after a federal court had outlawed race-based selection for its public universities, Texas introduced a scheme guaranteeing university places to the top 10% of every high-school class.
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