Word: tulsa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wore a Scream mask to section on Halloween? Granted, not much. But accusations of witchcraft certainly rank up there. While such charges probably evoke images of seventeenth-century New England, incredibly, they persist even today. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma filed a lawsuit Oct. 26 against Tulsa school officials, claiming that they violated a 15 year-old student's civil rights when they suspended her in December 1999 for allegedly casting a spell on a teacher and making him sick...
...find out, we hired indoor-air detectives Terry Brennan and Richard Shaughnessy to come in this summer and give us a thorough checkup. Shaughnessy is head of indoor-air research at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Brennan is president of Camroden Associates of Westmoreland, N.Y., and is generally regarded as one of the top "building scientists" in the country. Things have never been busier for them and the thousands of other indoor-air experts across the country, Brennan says, because people are catching on to the effects of indoor contaminants. Last week, a University of Maryland professor announced that...
...Paula Marshall-Chapman, 47, CEO of the Bama Companies, a $140 million Tulsa, Okla., frozen-dough-and-pie concern that started in her grandmother's kitchen in 1927, the road to success has been studded with familial potholes. When Marshall-Chapman took over from her father in 1984, her two brothers were furious that they would not be involved in running the show. The business was changed from a corporation to a partnership, with Marshall-Chapman named general partner. Her parents Lilah and Paul Marshall took their equity out of the business to live on. The structure of the general...
...political question is which side will claim the most swing voters--that is, the most women whose votes are available to candidates of either party. Nancy Inhofe, a Tulsa, Okla., emergency-room pediatrician and mother of two, was reared as a conservative Republican and is a daughter-in-law of Oklahoma's Republican Senator James Inhofe. But Nancy, a local coordinator for the Million Mom March, describes herself as an independent voter and says the march defies political distinctions. "It doesn't matter what side you're on politically," she says. "Personal experience has prompted me and people like...
...remains the purest of sporting events and by far the most fun. And you know what? To hell with my picks. Tulsa all the way. Why stop at partial insanity...