College Station News
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Employees at McKee Lumber Co. in Corsicana, Texas, were discussing last month’s deadly blast at a fertilizer plant 50 miles away one recent morning when talk turned to their neighbor: El Dorado Chemical Co.
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Intruders repeatedly broke into the West, Texas, fertilizer plant that exploded last month, revealing what critics called a pattern of inadequate security.
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General Electric Co., whose Connecticut headquarters is about 35 minutes by car from the site of the Newtown school massacre, said it tightened rules against providing consumer financing to firearms retailers.
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Texas high school graduates will be able to obtain a four-year degree for $10,000 on a wide scale within 10 years, said John Sharp, the chancellor of the Texas A&M University system.
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In 1979, with a bill to lift the debt ceiling moving through Congress, Phil Gramm, a first-term House Democrat from Texas, proposed an amendment that would require a balanced budget.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc and the Texas A&M University System won U.S. approval for a $91 million flu vaccine plant that can be used to produce treatments in response to pandemics or biological attacks.
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The longest cotton rally in four years and a lingering drought in the southern Great Plains are forcing farmers in the U.S., the world’s biggest exporter, to reconsider a shift to other crops.
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Eastman Kodak Co. won more time to negotiate and propose a reorganization plan that would allow the 132-year-old photography pioneer to exit bankruptcy.
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Cotton futures gained the most in more than a month on renewed signs that plantings will slump in the U.S., the world’s biggest exporter. Sugar, cocoa and coffee also advanced. Orange juice declined.
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Bill Donald, the third-generation owner of Cayuse Livestock Co., sold the calves he raised early last summer and cut purchases of cattle after pastures dried up. The herd grazing his land now is about 85 percent of normal.
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