An Australian or a Texan cannot distinguish between a Loire wine and a Bourgogne.
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In 2000, for example, a Texan widow called Christie Littleton sued her late husband's doctor for malpractice.
Who would expect foie gras shooters from a Texan in a cowboy hat?
Being a Texan by choice, I remember well my early trips to Lubbock.
George W. Bush ran as a Texan, like dad, with a Texan swagger to boot and wore boots and was comfy on a ranch.
George senior, for all his love of football and avid crunching of pork rinds, was always seen as a north-easterner rather than a Texan.
W. Bush was an Eastern elite and much more Dewey than Taft, but he had long-time legit roots in Texas and ran as a Texan.
Intern Bridge, a Texan firm founded in 2005 by Richard Bottner, himself a former intern, claims to have worked with 80% of Fortune 100 firms.
Reassembling for their lame-duck session last month, the first thing the Republicans did was scrap this provision so that the majority leader, Tom DeLay, could stay on even if he were to be indicted in a Texan money-politics scandal.
Competitive chilli-making is a very Texan concept, one unsurprisingly spawned by a feud.
Lastly, governor, as a native Texan, we have no desire to be honorary residents of Ohio.
Mr McLaren, a circumspect fellow, is not even a native Texan: he grew up in the mid-west.
Mr Funderburgh is the new face of the blues, a white Texan whose musical talent has earned him national respect.
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Jonathan Caouette is a young Texan filmmaker who was raised in dismaying, sometimes brutal, circumstances and who has now trawled through them for evidence.
Birkelbach, the pitmaster, is a lifelong Texan who loves his work.
Hensarling, a combative Texan who will begin his fifth term in Congress in January, is slated to chair the House Republican Conference, the GOP caucus on the House side of the Capitol.
Magness, a sly Texan in the Ross Perot mold, had started out with 700 customers in Memphis, Tex. in 1956, back when operators pulled TV signals free from the sky and pumped them into markets too puny for broadcasters or bureaucrats to bother with.
As well as the IPL, ICL and Twenty20 Cup, England have agreed to play five lucrative Twenty20 matches in the Caribbean over the next five years after signing a deal with Texan-born businessman Sir Allen Stanford.
Texan boots and cowboy hats are a frequent sight at the local airport, but few take the Texan theme as far as Sir Moir: he lives on a ranch in the rolling countryside near the queen's Scottish seat of Balmoral, breeding Aberdeen Angus cattle.
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Compare this with an interview your correspondent had with a blue-collar Texan last year.
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So the boots stayed, making this long, tall Texan even a bit taller.
Meanwhile, the average Texan puts a whopping 3% of his hard-earned income into insuring his home, more than double the national average.
Bush presents himself as a straight-talking Texan who does not mince words or parse meanings, does not run late or overeat or flirt with women not his wife.
Within weeks of Brumley senior's announcing his departure from Cross Timbers, he got a call from billionaire Texan Richard Rainwater, then the biggest shareholder in Boone Pickens' troubled company Mesa, asking him to fix it.
Sir Allen, a 58-year-old Texan, has not been seen by officials since the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil case on Tuesday.
Despite the pounding of the Gore heavy artillery, the Texan, with a few wobbles but no gaffes, held his ground.
Since quitting his finance job with a U.S. conglomerate, the Texan has turned his passion for the city's elegant old homes into a successful second career.
Four years ago, Mr Cheney seemed a reassuring figure beside the young Texan governor.
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