Midland firms shine in Texas Business top 500 list
Five Midland companies tied to oil and gas appear in Texas Business magazine's 1994 top 500 producers. Parker and Parsley lead Midland entries at 110, followed by Clayton Williams Energy at 344, Dawson Geophysical at 422, TMBR Sharp Drilling at 429, and Tom Brown at 444.
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Parker & Parsley Petroleum Co
Midland
Farr's Bishop's Inc
Lubbock
First Financial Bankshares Inc
Abilene
Clayton Williams Energy Inc
Patterson Energy Inc
Snyder
Pittencrieff Communications Inc
Dawson Geophysical Co
Tmbr Sharp Drilling Inc
Tucker Drilling Co. Inc
San Angelo
Tom Brown Inc
Independent Bankshares Inc
Smail's Oilfield Services Corp
Big Spring
Texas Business Magazine
West Texas
Parker and Parsley Petroleum Co
Partain
Gephardt backs 10 percent top rate tax plan reform
House Democrat Dick Gephardt proposed a 10 percent top marginal rate for most Americans and elimination of most deductions except mortgage interest. The plan keeps earned income tax credits, taxes unearned income, and would tax all income including fringes, while higher earners pay up to 34 percent.
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Washington
House
Dick Gephardt
Gephardt
D-Mo
Dick Armey
GOP
Jack A
Bob Dole
R-Kan
Phil Gramm
Texas
Rnmey
Arlen Specter
Pennsylvania
Dick Lugar
Indiana
Clinton
Treasury
Robert Rubin
Armey
Space station gets bad rap from Mir crew
CAPE CANAVERAL AP Almost four months on the Russian space station Mir and Norman Thagard is ready to call it quits Shuttle crewmate Gregory Harbaugh doubts he'd want to spend months going round and round Earth and shuttle commander Robert Gibson agrees There wasn’t a rush at NASA for Mir volunteers and Thagard’s lukewarm view may push astronauts to rethink staying aboard during construction of the international space station two years away Harbaugh says he may not have the mindset to stay somewhere three to six or 12 months if he isn’t going somewhere.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Mir
Norman Thagard
Gregory Harbaugh
Earth
Robert
Gibson
Thagard
U.S
Harbaugh
Doctors say health insurers invest in tobacco stocks
Three physicians from Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School say major U S insurers hold tens of millions in tobacco equities. The doctors, allies of Physicians for a National Health Program, compare this to a veterinary taxidermist slogan and urge national health coverage to replace private plans.
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Washington
Lancet
J. Wesley Boyd
David A. Himmelstein
Steffie Woolhandler
Cambridge Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Prudential Insurance
Cigna Corp
Fed Cuts Federal Funds Rate as Recession Fears Grow
Washington AP reports the Federal Reserve reduced the federal funds rate from 6.0 to 5.75 percent, its first cut in nearly three years, to bolster a faltering economy. The move boosted stocks, lowered Treasury yields, and prompted banks to trim their prime lending rate by a quarter point.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
Treasury
Bank of America
Banc One Corp
Fed
Commerce Department
Federal Open Market Committee
Alan Greenspan
Bob Falconer
Aubrey G. Lanston & Co
Boys rule ends of scale in 30 years of tests
Washington AP report finds boys dominate top math and science scores with a 7 to 1 ratio and also overwhelm the bottom ranks in reading and writing. Girls average in the middle. University of Chicago analysis of six national studies from the 1960s to recent decades shows similar overall averages but stronger tails for boys.
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Washington
University of Chicago
Larry Hedges
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Odessa
Debra Simpson
Bruce Partain
Midland Chamber of Commerce
Dawson
Ismael Aguirre
Tommy Pugh
Sam Magee
Custom
52Nd Street
Tanglewood
Aguirre
Space Station
NASA
O.A
Laura Dennis
Fun & Games
Saw Ma
Henry B. Gonzalez
House Banking Committee
Robert Dederick
Northern Trust Co
Chicago
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