Word: austin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hacker dragnets generated the most heat. Ten months after the Secret Service shut down the bulletin boards, the government still has not produced any indictments. And several similar cases that have come before courts have been badly flawed. One Austin-based game publisher whose bulletin-board system was seized last March is expected soon to sue the government for violating his civil liberties...
...during this critical period in the planet's history, just as life was beginning to emerge from the sea. It may help explain the birth of the Pacific Ocean, and even point the way to valuable mineral deposits. Said co-author Ian Dalziel, from the University of Texas at Austin: "The theory gives us a new road map for the past 570 million years...
N.A.S. members are manning the intellectual barricades almost everywhere these days. At the University of Texas at Austin, chapter adherents successfully challenged a proposal to focus English 306, a required freshman writing course, on problems of race and gender. They argued that the change would turn the class into a political-indoctrination course. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the N.A.S. chapter has criticized a plan to hire more minority professors, contending that it would set up the academic equivalent of a patronage system. Christina Hoff Sommers, an associate professor of philosophy at Clark University, refused to sign...
...thriving Texas broadcast and real estate properties that in 1985 was valued at more than $100 million. But now the LBJ Co., owned almost entirely by the Johnson family, is being dismantled for far less, a victim of the state's economic bust. KLBJ AM-FM, the highly profitable Austin radio . station once valued at $27 million, is on the block for $13.5 million. Thirty cable-TV systems may bring $50 million...
Some restaurants have undergone full-blown conversions. The 10-year-old Courtyard in Austin closed last year, and when chef-owner Gert Rauch reopened it as the Courtyard Grill, he had done away with grilled pheasant breast with shitake mushrooms in favor of more casual food, such as grilled marinated duck with warm cabbage salad. In Cambridge, Mass., Michela Larson added a glass- enclosed cafe atrium to her restaurant, Michela's, which serves a restrained version of her Northern Italian dishes. Cod, braised and served with a sauce of leeks, sherry and smoked bacon, replaced grilled swordfish. In the main...