Texas not expecting lower rates despite state decrease
Texas Insurance Commissioner Elton Bomer announces a 3 percent statewide cut in homeowners rates and 25 percent in renters, but local agents in the Odessa Midland area expect few declines due to turbulent weather and high claims. The benchmark will guide insurers who set their own rates within a permitted range for competition.
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Permian Basin
Texas Insurance
Elton Bomer
Department of Insurance
Odessa
Midland
Big Spring
San Angelo
Sweetwater
Houston Copeland
Houston Copeland Insurance Agency
Jaca
Permian
Copeland
Texas
Texas Department of Insurance
Bomer
State Department of Insurance
Odessa/Midland
Larry Crawford
Insurance Man and Associates
Cameron Elementary weighs return to traditional calendar
Cameron Elementary may abandon its year round schedule for 1995-96 due to funding cuts. The plan, approved by the Campus Improvement Team, will be reviewed by the ECISD board June 20. Principal Steve Tercero cites budget strains from Chapter 1 and lower county mineral valuations as factors.
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Cameron Elementary
Cameron
Steve Tercero
Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees
Tercero
Nancy Stone
Stone
108 U.N hostages released across Drina to Serbia
Bosnian Serbs freed 108 U.N peacekeepers before dawn crossing the Drina into Zvornik, with crews from Britain France Ukraine and Spain among those released. More hostages among 148 remaining could follow as international mediation continues. NATO troops and helicopters move from Germany to Italy, awaiting deployment plans for potential U.N. force support.
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Mali Zvornik
Yugoslavia
Bosnia
U.N
Serbia
Drina
Britain
France
Ukraine
Spain
Jovica Stanisic
Zvornic
SRNA
Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic
Stanisic
Novi Sad
Belgrade
United Nations
NATO
Washington
State Department
Christine Shelly
White House
Mike McCurry
U.S
Germany
Italy
U.S. Army-Europe
Richard Bridges
Heidelberg
West Texas find hints at early multicellular life in ancient quarry
Texas Christian University geologists say a West Texas quarry discovery of inch long wormlike markings etched in a 1 billion year old rock suggests multicellular animals appeared far earlier than previously believed. If confirmed the find could reshape how scientists view early life on Earth.
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Fort Worth
West Texas
John Breyer
Texas Christian University
TCU
Earth
Richard Hanson
Hanson
Breyer
Art Busbey
John A. Breyer
van Horn
GOP soft money donations surge to 1995 high
The GOP raised 7.3 million in soft money to the Republican National Committee in the first four months of 1995, nearing total 1993 soft money levels. Corporations and wealthy individuals fueled the flow, despite legal limits on direct contributions. The practice funds Get Out The Vote efforts and general party-building activities.
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Washington
Fruit of
NRA
Republican National Committee
Clinton
Congress
GOP
America
Haley Barbour
Out-of-wedlock births rise since 1980 study says
A 1992 health statistics report shows unmarried women giving birth rose over 50 percent since 1980, with white women nearly doubling. Teens accounted for less than a third of 1.2 million unwed births, peaking in early 20s, amid a noted decline in stigma and shifting demographics.
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Washington
National Center For Health Statistics
Murphy Brown
Dan Quayle
Stephanie Ventura
Ventura
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