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TAC Capital Sends Letter to Sterling Bancshares Shareholders

Nov 5, 2010

News Blaze - Mr. Hance is the Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Hance was senior partner in Hance Scarborough, LLP, an Austin law firm. Mr. Hance formerly represented Texas as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, previously served as a Texas State Senator (serving on the Finance and State Affairs committees), and also served as Chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas.

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Is It Really a Pension? It´s a Problem

Nov 5, 2010

CNBC - The new paper, by Alan L. Gustman, an economics professor at Dartmouth; Thomas Steinmeier, an economics professor at Texas Tech; and Nahid Tabatabai, a researcher at Dartmouth, set out to estimate just how much those added benefits cost. That is harder than it seems, given the complexity of changes in Social Security law over the decades. But the authors had access to a lot of data from the Social Security Administration, which financed the study through the Michigan Retirement Research Center, and their estimates seem reasonable.

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Retail Roundup: Family Matters

Nov 5, 2010

Jewelers' Circular Keystone - “Family businesses tend to be more conservative and not take the bold actions a lot of small businesses might take,” says Jeremy Short, professor of management at Texas Tech University. A lack of staff autonomy—a common result, Short says—reduces innovation. “It has potential to constrain decision-making and proactive thinking about market challenges.”

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Cotton Today includes Fibertect in innovative list

Nov 4, 2010

Commodity Online - Fibertect, a decontamination technology developed by researchers at Texas Tech University, was one of seven new innovations selected by Cotton Incorporated to show the versatility of the fiber. The products are highlighted in short vignettes on Cotton Incorporated’s Cotton Today website.

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