Word: taub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fatigues and combat boots, Torres appeared drunk but apparently healthy when police officers took him away. A few hours later, when the police brought him to jail, he was so badly bruised that duty officers refused to book him. They told the arresting officers to take Torres to Ben Taub General Hospital for treatment. Instead, six policemen drove him one mile to an area known as "the Hole," behind a large warehouse facing the muddy Buffalo Bayou that winds through the city. There, according to subsequent testimony, they pushed Torres off a 20-ft. dock into the bayou. His body...
...opinion of most Israeli economists, the government should have acted much sooner than it did. Yitzhak Taub, chairman of the Israeli Securities Authority argued that the best time for austerity would have been right after the October war ended. Now, he says, "distortions had to be corrected. Because of our subsidies we were selling sugar at such a low price that the value of sugar in candies exported to England was worth more than the price of the candy...
...houses to supply their plumbing needs. When it rains, the community's streets simply become impassable, and the townspeople must wade in to their homes from the farm-to-market highway that runs through the center of town. It is nearly 25 miles to Houston's Ben Taub Hospital, but there are no public transportation lines that serve Bordersville. Most of the working-age people in Bordersville are unemployed, and most families are on welfare. Local employment is almost non-existent, and with few cars and no bus lines, most of the townspeople are unable to get to work even...
...races and $1,462,014. The first big surprise of the auction came after only eleven horses had been sold, when a New Jersey computer magnate and racing novice paid $125,000 for a Native Dancer grandson. Having given his trainer authority to buy the horse, Joseph Taub was eating a leisurely dinner at the time the trainer spent his money. He returned from his meal to borrow a flashlight and inspect his new acquisition in a darkened stall. The highlight came Thursday, when a three-way bidding contest for a bay son of Buckpasser ended with Mrs. Marion duPont...