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...council threw their weight behind this vision early this month by allocating $25,000 to the proposed student center--the largest single allocation of funds in council history. The money was not given without strings attached. In order to receive it, the University has one year to hire an architect, create a planning committee that includes students and make a timetable for the building process...
...company will serve 20 million households and hold $180 billion in assets, making it the eighth largest bank in America, according to BankBoston officials...
After getting skunked in the past two presidential elections and taking a pasting in the 1998 midterms, Republicans are desperate for a winner. And Bush is nothing if not that: he upset incumbent Ann Richards in 1994 to become Governor of what is now the second largest state, won re-election last fall with 69% of the vote, and currently boasts job-approval ratings among Texans that top 80%. His success at co-opting traditional Democratic issues such as education--and boosting from 37% to 65% the number of black and Hispanic students passing key statewide tests--has helped lure...
Among its many problems, the Galleria had no high-end anchor store, like Nordstrom or Neiman Marcus; its two largest tenants, Robinsons and May department stores, merged and got into a messy legal dispute with the mall. Then there was the mall's odd design, which made it difficult to even know how to get into the place. Maybe most important, there were three better malls within 10 miles...
...Rosie the Ribeter in 1986. Visitors to the area can see two other record holders: a 44-lb. crystallized leaf gold nugget, purportedly the world's biggest, worth $3 million, at the Ironstone Vineyards; and the giant sequoias, members of the world's largest living species, in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Twain visited Bret Harte, another gold-rush writer, at Harte's cabin near California Caverns, where, according to local lore, Twain spelunked and found inspiration for the cave in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Nearby Columbia State Historic Park is one of California's best-preserved gold-rush...