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Aug 20, 2013
Your Houston News-Darren Hudson, the director of the Cotton Economic Research Institute at Texas Tech University, said China — the world’s leading cotton producer — stores the fiber to try to balance internal political and economic pressures between the price it pays its growers and international competitiveness of the country’s textile industry.
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Aug 19, 2013
EnergyVortex.com-Energy savings from the wind farm average $2.9 million annually over a 20-year contract term and the project will enable Pantex to meet the President’s energy initiatives for green energy. The wind farm at Pantex will allow NNSA to meet almost all of its renewable energy goals while also offering unique research opportunities to longtime partner in education, Texas Tech University, and its research collaborators. The farm will generate approximately 45 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually – greater than 60 percent of Pantex’s annual electricity needs. “Three years of hard work, dedication and determination have paid off,' said NNSA Production Office Manager Steve Erhart. 'The NNSA’s goal was to turn Texas wind into energy, and we have overcome numerous hurdles in implementing the contracting strategy.”
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Aug 19, 2013
Chronicle of Higher Education-David D. Perlmutter is dean of the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University. He writes the 'Career Confidential' advice column for The Chronicle. His book, Promotion and Tenure Confidential, was published by Harvard University Press in 2010.
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Aug 15, 2013
BeforeItsNews.com-Further, once an organization is granted tax exemption, federal law mandates that its application as well as the IRS’s approval letter be made publicly available; since its application was not publicly available, lawyers could have deduced that its file was pending. For this reason and others, Bryan Camp of Texas Tech University’s law school does not believe Lerner broke the law. “Assuming the disclosure occurred, I don’t see that as a 6103 violation,” he says, citing a provision that allows the IRS to verify whether an organization is “currently held to be exempt.” But Camp adds a caveat. “The law of disclosure is complex and treacherous,” he says. “There are very few, even in the office of chief counsel, who understand all the ins and outs.”
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