Word: austin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Austin, Texas...
Anthony Keating's conversion from the smug anti-commerce snobbery of his idle friends (rich and not-so-rich alike) to the property fever of Wincobank occurs while he is reviewing video clips of Austin Jones, the "bright young man" he has sent to interview Wincobank. Suddenly, lightening strikes...
...could he not have noticed it before? The truth was that Len Wincobank was a genius, about ten times as intelligent, ten times as perceptive, ten times as alive as Austin Jones. Austin Jones, in comparison was a boring somnambulist, a ventriloquist's dummy, mouthing without conviction or information or even any intelligence the obligatory provocative questions...
...structures," which could dissipate energy at the same time they were organizing themselves and growing in size and complexity. Chemical confirmation of his theory did not come as a surprise to Prigogine, who is also director of the Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the University of Texas, Austin. Nor did last week's prize. "The professor more or less expected this reward," said a colleague. "It was in the normal course of things...
Several city utility companies, including those in Austin, San Antonio and a number of small towns near Crystal City, refused to pay the increases to the producer and went to court to seek reductions. The utility companies continued to charge their customers the full rate, but they put the difference between the lower and higher rates in escrow accounts until the courts ruled on the matter...